Gansu Provincial Museum
【Gansu Provincial Museum】Located at No. 3 Xijin West Road, Qilihe District, Lanzhou City, it is one of the earliest comprehensive museums established in China, its predecessor was the Gansu Science Education Museum established in 1939, officially renamed gansu Provincial Museum in 1956, and was promoted to a national first-class museum in 2012.
The total area of the exhibition building of the museum is about 28,000 square meters, the building plan is "mountain" shape, the middle five floors, two wings and three floors, a total of 18 exhibition halls, the collection of historical relics, modern cultural relics, ethnic relics and paleontological fossils and specimens of about 350,000 pieces, especially the Neolithic Gansu faience pottery, Han and Tang Silk Road treasures, Buddhist art treasures, paleontological fossils and other unique precious cultural relics are most worth a look.
The most important thing to miss when visiting the provincial expo is the treasure of its town hall - copper galloping horse, which is also known as "horse stepping flying swallow". This bronze horse excavated in 1969 from the tomb of LeitaiHan in Wuwei is a precious cultural relic that the State Administration of Cultural Heritage has banned from exhibiting abroad, and its image has been determined by the National Tourism Administration as a Chinese tourism symbol, which is really the No. 1 in a number of national treasure-level cultural relics!
Permanent exhibitions
"Gansu Faience Pottery" exhibition hall
There are Dadiwan culture, Yangshao culture, Majiayao culture and Bronze Age faience pottery on display.
Exhibition hall of "Gansu Silk Road Civilization"
More than 420 cultural relics that systematically reflect the ancient Silk Road are displayed, including bronze ware of the northern grassland culture, copper galloping horses and honor guards, Han and Tang silk fabrics, Buddhist statues, gold and silverware, Tang Sancai, Yuan Qinghua and other colorful cultural heritage.
Exhibition hall of "Gansu Paleontological Fossils"
Taking the history of life evolution on earth as the main line, a large number of fossil specimens of paleontological organisms found in Gansu are exhibited, including four sub-exhibition halls of the Earth Hall, the Marine Animal Hall, the Dinosaur Hall, and the Yellow River Ancient Elephant Hall. The various paleontological fossils discovered in the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic periods of the Evolution of Earth and Life and the Geological Period are introduced, as well as their living environment and related knowledge.
"Solemn and Mysterious Appearance - Gansu Buddhist Art Exhibition" exhibition hall
The selection of Buddhist art treasures, with historical evolution as the main line, is divided into six parts, such as The Dharma Dong gradually, shengshi Sanskrit, Hua Luo Human, Calyx Tonghui, dunhuang relics and other six parts, showing the historical trajectory of the spread and development of Buddhism in Longyuan from the Sixteen Kingdoms to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the image concretely shows the overall picture of the development of Buddhist art in Gansu.
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Tickets:
gratis
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Opening Hours:
9:00-17:00 (last admission at 16:30)
Open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday and closed on Mondays (except national holidays)
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