Shanxi History Museum Xian

Shanxi History Museum Xian

Shanxi History Museum, Xian

Address: Shananxi Province, Xian City, Yangta Road, 70
Telephone: 86-29-85219422
Fax: 86-29-85262216

The Shaanxi History Museum is a newly built modern building which recreates Tang-dynasty architecture and successfully symbolizes the great extent of Shaanxi history and its remarkable culture. It covers 65,000 square meters, with a building area of 60,000 square meters. Housing over 300,000 items (murals, paintings, pottery, coins; bronze, gold, and silver objects).

The modern museum was built between 1983 and 2001.

Exhibited in the main exhibition hall are 2,700 works of art, with an exhibition line that extends 2,300 meters.

The two-storied primary pavilion is divided into the following three main exhibition halls:

The Basic Exhibition Hall is composed of the No 1 exhibition hall, the No 2 exhibition hall and the No 3 exhibition hall, marked by time order.

To the west of the Basic Exhibition Hall lies the Theme Exhibition Hall . The hall is 2,500 square meters (26,909 square feet) and usually features a variety of theme exhibitions. This hall is mainly used to hold exhibitions about Shaanxi local culture. Exhibitions such as 'Shaanxi Fine Bronze Objects Exhibition' and 'Over Dynasties' Fine Terra Cotta Figures Exhibition' once were held here.

The East Exhibition Hall , equal in size to the Theme Exhibition Hall, is also on the first floor and to the east of the basic hall. It is used for contemporary exhibitions of high quality.

The Shaanxi History Museum contains 115,000 objects in its collections. The museum houses precious culture relics of the prehistoric time, as well as the dynasties of Zhou, Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Jin, Northern and Southern, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing. Delicate pottery, bronze, golden and silver wares together with models and pictures of many sites can give you a deep impression of the long and refulgent history of Shaanxi and China. The more representative of these include bronzes, Tang-dynasty tomb wall paintings, terracotta statuary, ceramics (pottery and porcelain), construction materials through the dynasties, Han and Tang bronze mirrors, and coins and currency, calligraphy, rubbings, scrolls, woven articles, bone articles, wooden and lacquer and iron and stone objects, seals, as well as some contemporary cultural relics and ethnic objects.

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