List of museums in China

As of 2006^[1], there are more than 2,200 museums in China, which includes public museums and museums of universities. Local non-governmental museums included, the number of museums nationwide has reached some 2,900. With a collection of over 20 million items, these museums hold more than 8,000 exhibitions every year and 160 million people visits. Some museums of cultural relics, such as the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, have become internationally known tourist attractions. The government has exchanges of cultural relics exhibitions between museums and promotes the display and exchanges of legal non-governmental collections.

List

Below is a list of museums in China.

Anhui

• Anhui Provincial Museum
• China Huizhou Tax Museum

Beijing

• Beijing Museum of Natural History
• [1] China Science and Technology Museum
• China Railway Museum, Beijing
• China National Film Museum, Beijing
• Geological Museum of China, Beijing
• Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing
• Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, Beijing
• National Museum of China, Beijing
• Palace Museum (Forbidden City), Beijing
• National Art Museum of China, Beijing
• Capital Museum
• International Friendship Museum
• Lu Xun Museum
• China Agricultural Museum
• Guanfu Museum (private)
• China Numismatic Museum
• China Museum of Telecommunications
• Beijing Folk Arts Museum
• China National Film Museum
• China Civil Aviation Museum
• Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum
• Liao and Jin City Wall Museum

Chongqing

• Three Gorges Museum

Fujian

• Quanzhou Museum
• Quanzhou Overseas Relations Museum (泉州海外交通史博物馆), which houses the Quanzhou ship

Gansu

• Gansu Provincial Museum (Lanzhou)
• Lanzhou Museum (Lanzhou)
• Silk Road Museum

Guangdong

• Guangdong Provincial Museum, Guanzhou
• Longgang museum of Hakka culture, Longgang
• Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King, Guangzhou
• Shenzhen Museum
• Dongguan Science and Technology Museum

Guangxi

• Guangxi Museum
• Guangxi Museum of Nationalities
• Liuzhou Museum
• Museum of Guihai Tablets Forest

Guizhou

Hainan

• Hainan Museum

Hebei

• Hebei Provincial Museum

Heilongjiang

Henan

• Henan Museum, Zhengzhou
• Guo State Museum, Sanmenxia

Hong Kong SAR

Main article: List of museums in Hong Kong

Hubei

• Hubei Provincial Museum
• Wuhan Museum
• Underground Project 131, in Xianning Prefecture

Hunan

• Hunan Provincial Museum, Changsha

Inner Mongolia

• Inner Mongolia Museum, Hohhot

Jiangsu

• China Modern History Museum, Nanjing
• Nanjing Museum, Nanjing
• Nanjing Municipal Museum
• The Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, Nanjing
• Suzhou Museum, Suzhou
• Suzhou Arts and Crafts Museum
• Changzhou Museum
• Zhenjiang Museum
• Yangzhou Museum and China Block Printing Museum (the two are locally known as the "double museum", as they share the lobby section)
• Xuzhou Museum
• Xuzhou Decree Museum
• Taiping Kingdom History Museum, Nanjing
• The Museum of Guangling King's Tomb in Han Dynasty, Yangzhou

Jiangxi

Jilin

• Museum of Imperial Palace of Manchu State, Changchun
• Jilin University Museum

Liaoning

• Dalian Natural History Museum
• Dalian Modern Museum
• Shenyang Steam Locomotive Museum

Macau

Ningxia

Qinghai

• Liuwan Museum of Ancient Painted Pottery, Ledu

Shaanxi

• Shaanxi History Museum, Xian
• Xi'an Stele Forest Museum (Beilin), Xian
• Terracotta Army, Xian
• Xi'an Banpo Museum, Xi'an
• Maoling Museum

Shandong

• Shandong Provincial Museum
• Shandong Science & Technology Museum
• Jinan Museum
• Qingdao Municipal Museum

Shanghai

• Shanghai Museum
• Shanghai Art Museum
• Shanghai Entomological Museum
• Shanghai History Museum
• Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
• Shanghai Water Displaying Hall
• C. Y. Tung Maritime Museum
• Shanghai Museum of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine)
• Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MOCA Shanghai)
• Shanghai Museum of Public Security

Shanxi

• Shanxi Provincial Museum (Taiyuan)
• Shanxi Provincial Museum of Art (Taiyuan)
• Datong Museum (Lower Huayan Monastery of Datong)
• The Coal Museum of China (Taiyuan)

Sichuan

• Zigong Dinosaur Museum, Zigong
• Zigong Salt History Museum, Zigong
• Sichuan Science and Technology Museum, Chengdu
• Du Fu Cao Tang (Thatched Cottage of Du Fu), Chengdu
• Sanxingdui Museum
• Jinsha Site Museum
• China Colour Lantern Museum
• Jianchuan Museum

Tianjin

• Tianjin Museum
• Memorial to Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao, Tianjin
• Tianjin Natural History Museum

Tibet Autonomous Region

Xinjiang

• Khotan Cultural Museum
• Turpan Museum

Yunnan

• Lufeng Dinosaur Museum
• Yunnan Provincial Museum
• Yunnan Nationalities Museum
• Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology
• Yunnan Railway Museum Kunming.

Zhejiang

• Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou
• Zhejiang Museum of Natural History
• Hangzhou Southern Song Dynasty Guan Kiln Museum
• Hangzhou World Numismatic Museum
• Liangzhu Culture Museum
• China National Tea Museum, Hangzhou
• China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou
• Zhoushan Museum
• China Finance and Taxation Museum
• China Shoes Museum, Wenzhou
• China Grand Canal Museum
• The National Sauce Culture Museum of China
• Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum, Hangzhou
• Chinese Seal Museum, Hangzhou

See also

• Universities in China
• Libraries in China
• List of World Heritage Sites in China

References

1. ^ http://www.china.org.cn/archive/2006-12/26/content_1193351.htm

External links

• Museums in China (English, by chinaculture.org)
• Museums in China overview
• China Museums directory (Chinese)
• China Museums Guide
• Beijing's Museums & Galleries - China.org.cn
• Chinese Museums with English language websites
• "China to Have 3,000 Museums by 2015"
• "Another 1,200 museums open for free by 2009"
• Nanjing's Museums & Galleries - NanjingExpat.com
• China Museum Index