Gansu Provincial Museum
| Gansu Provincial Museum | |
|---|---|
| 甘肃省博物馆 (gānsù shěng bówùguăn) | |
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The newly refurbished exhibition building | |
  Location within China | |
| Former name | Gansu Science and Education Museum |
| Location | Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China |
| Coordinates | 36°03′40″N 103°50′03″E / 36.06109°N 103.83430°E |
| Key holdings | Flying Horse of Gansu |
| Collections | Silk Road, Neolithic, Natural Science[1][2] |
| Collection size | 355,364[3] |
| Director | E. Jun |
The Gansu Provincial Museum is a museum in Lanzhou, China.[4] 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.[5]
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:
- Buddhist Art
- Fossils
- Pottery
- Silk Road civilization[2]
See also
Gansu Flying Horse
Silk Route Museum
References
- ↑ "Departments page". Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "about.com page". Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ "EXPO Museums article". Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ "The website (english)". Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ↑ "The history section of the website". Museum History (Chinese). Retrieved 6 March 2015.
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