Gansu Provincial Museum

The Gansu Provincial Museum (simplified Chinese: 甘肃省博物馆; traditional Chinese: 甘肅省博物館; pinyin: Gānsù Shěng Bówùguǎn) 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.^[4]

Gansu Provincial Museum

甘肃省博物馆
The newly refurbished exhibition building
Location within China
Former name	Gansu Science and Education Museum
Established	1939
Location	Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China
Coordinates	36.06109°N 103.83430°E / 36.06109; 103.83430
Key holdings	Flying Horse of Gansu
Collections	Silk Road, Neolithic, Natural Science[1][2]
Collection size	355,364[3]
Director	E. Jun
Website	www.gansumuseum.com English:

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:^[5]

• Buddhist art
• Fossils and paleontology
• Painted pottery
• Silk Road civilization^[2]
• 'Red Gansu' (Communist Party during the Chinese Civil War)

See also

• Gansu Flying Horse
• Silk Route Museum

References

1. "Departments page". Retrieved 6 March 2015.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
2. "about.com page". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
3. "EXPO Museums article". Archived from the original on 7 March 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
4. "The history section of the website". Museum History (Chinese). Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
5. "进入展厅-展览介绍". Archived from the original on 2016-06-05. Retrieved 2016-05-14.

External links

• Travel China Guide