Established 1939 Collection size 355,364 Phone +86 931 233 9133 | Province Gansu | |
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Former name Gansu Science and Education Museum Similar Hubei Provincial Museum, Shaanxi History Museum, Bingling Temple, Yunnan Provincial Museum, Tibet Museum | ||
The Gansu Provincial Museum (Chinese: 甘肃省博物馆; pinyin: Gānsù Shěng Bówùguăn) is a museum in Lanzhou, China. Its collections include over 350,000 artefacts, in two main sections: history and natural science. Since its foundation, the museum has held almost 300 exhibitions, and items from its collections have been exhibited worldwide. The museum was originally only for the history of Gansu itself, but was re-purposed in 1956 to be a natural history museum, after three years of renovations.
Exhibitions
A major holding of the museum is the Flying Horse of Gansu, a bronze sculpture from Eastern Han dynasty, around the 2nd century AD. Apart from this, the museum has permanent exhibitions on:
References
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