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.

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List

Below is a list of museums in China.

Anhui

Beijing

Chongqing

Fujian

Gansu

Guangdong

Guangxi

Guizhou

Hainan

Hebei

Heilongjiang

Henan

Hong Kong SAR

Hubei

Hunan

Inner Mongolia

Jiangsu

Jiangxi

Jilin

Liaoning

Macau

Ningxia

Qinghai

Shaanxi

Shandong

Shanghai

Shanxi

Sichuan

Tianjin

Tibet Autonomous Region

Xinjiang

Yunnan

Zhejiang

See also

References

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

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