| China is a great country enojoying long history and rich | | | | Chinese art, situated on the People's Square in the |
| culture. There are thousands of museums in China | | | | Huangpu District of Shanghai, People's Republic of |
| owning the historical relics and cultural items. Seeing the | | | | China.The museum was founded in 1952 and was first |
| historical tools or relics is the best way to learn the | | | | open to the public in the former Shanghai Racecourse |
| history of China and history of Chinese. Here are | | | | club house, now at 325 W. Nanjing Road. In 1959 the |
| some of the top museums in China including Shaanxi | | | | museum 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 Museum | | | | companies and bank offices. In 1992, the Shanghai |
| Shaanxi History Museum, which located to the | | | | municipal government allocated a piece of land on |
| northwest of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in the | | | | People's Square to the museum as its new site. |
| ancient city Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province of China, is | | | | 4. Sanxingdui Museum |
| one of the first huge state museums with modern | | | | Sanxingdui is the name of an archaeological site and |
| facilities in China. The museum houses over 300,000 | | | | its deduced culture in China, now believed to be the |
| items including murals, paintings, pottery, coins, as well | | | | site of an ancient Chinese city. The previously |
| as bronze, gold, and silver objects. The modern | | | | unknown Bronze Age culture was re-discovered in |
| museum was built between 1983 and 2001 and its | | | | 1987 when archaeologists excavated remarkable |
| appearance recalls the architectural style of the Tang | | | | artifacts, that radiocarbon dating dated as being from |
| Dynasty.Shaanxi History Museum was constructed | | | | the 12th-11th centuries BCE. Leaving behind nothing in |
| from 1983. | | | | the historical record, not even in myth, the unknown |
| 2. Beijing Capital Museum | | | | culture that produced these artifacts is now known as |
| The Capital Museum located at 16 Fuxingmenwai | | | | the 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 was | | | | 5. Henan Provincial Museum |
| built in the late 1990s and it houses a variety of items | | | | The 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 formerly | | | | history and art museum. It has a collection of more |
| housed in the Confucius Temple on Guozijian Road in | | | | than 130,000 pieces of cultural relics through the ages. |
| Beijing. The Capital Museum today contains over | | | | In addition to its collection of human history the |
| 200,000 cultural relics in its collection, only a small | | | | museum is also home to many relics of natural history |
| fraction of it are exhibited, and a significant percentage | | | | including dinosaur bones and fossils. Henan Museum's |
| of the museum's art collection came from artifacts | | | | present building, which opened in 1997, occupies an |
| unearthed in Beijing. | | | | area of more than 100,000 square meters, with a total |
| 3. Shanghai Museum | | | | floor space of 78,000 square meters. |
| The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient | | | | |