Top Ten Museums in China (First Five)

China is a great country enojoying long history and richChinese art, situated on the People's Square in the
culture. There are thousands of museums in ChinaHuangpu District of Shanghai, People's Republic of
owning the historical relics and cultural items. Seeing theChina.The museum was founded in 1952 and was first
historical tools or relics is the best way to learn theopen to the public in the former Shanghai Racecourse
history of China and history of Chinese. Here areclub house, now at 325 W. Nanjing Road. In 1959 the
some of the top museums in China including Shaanximuseum moved into the former Zhonghui Building at 16
History Museum, Shanghai Museum and so on.S. Henan Road, which previously housed insurance
1. Shaanxi History Museumcompanies and bank offices. In 1992, the Shanghai
Shaanxi History Museum, which located to themunicipal government allocated a piece of land on
northwest of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in thePeople's Square to the museum as its new site.
ancient city Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province of China, is4. Sanxingdui Museum
one of the first huge state museums with modernSanxingdui is the name of an archaeological site and
facilities in China. The museum houses over 300,000its deduced culture in China, now believed to be the
items including murals, paintings, pottery, coins, as wellsite of an ancient Chinese city. The previously
as bronze, gold, and silver objects. The modernunknown Bronze Age culture was re-discovered in
museum was built between 1983 and 2001 and its1987 when archaeologists excavated remarkable
appearance recalls the architectural style of the Tangartifacts, that radiocarbon dating dated as being from
Dynasty.Shaanxi History Museum was constructedthe 12th-11th centuries BCE. Leaving behind nothing in
from 1983.the historical record, not even in myth, the unknown
2. Beijing Capital Museumculture that produced these artifacts is now known as
The Capital Museum located at 16 Fuxingmenwaithe Sanxingdui Culture. A museum housing the artifacts
Dajie, Xicheng District is an art museum in Beijing,is located near the city of Guanghan.
China. It opened in 1981 while the present building was5. Henan Provincial Museum
built in the late 1990s and it houses a variety of itemsThe Henan Museum or Henan Provincial Museum
from imperial China as well as other Asian cultures.located in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China, is a
Part of the museum's collections were formerlyhistory and art museum. It has a collection of more
housed in the Confucius Temple on Guozijian Road inthan 130,000 pieces of cultural relics through the ages.
Beijing. The Capital Museum today contains overIn addition to its collection of human history the
200,000 cultural relics in its collection, only a smallmuseum is also home to many relics of natural history
fraction of it are exhibited, and a significant percentageincluding dinosaur bones and fossils. Henan Museum's
of the museum's art collection came from artifactspresent building, which opened in 1997, occupies an
unearthed in Beijing.area of more than 100,000 square meters, with a total
3. Shanghai Museumfloor space of 78,000 square meters.
The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient