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Covering an area of
almost seventy thousand sq m and with a floor
space of fifty six thousand sq m, the History
Museum of Shaanxi in Xian (also known as the
Shaanxi History Museum) stands on the western
corner of the Greater Wild Goose Pagoda and this
is definitely of the better museums in China.
This grand museum in Xian is a palace-style
national museum with state-of-the-art facilities.
It was built using the architectural design from
the Tang Dynasty depicted by the numerous buildings
lined along the axis.
Officially opened in
1991, this famous museum in Xian has over eleven
thousand square meters of exhibition space which
is used mainly for basic, special theme and
temporary exhibitions whereby over three thousand
items of rare cultural relics from different
historical periods can be seen here and the
collection is chronologically arranged.
The ground floor
section is devoted to China's prehistory and the
early dynastic period, beginning with the
Palaeolithic Langtian Man to the New Stone Age
settlements at Lintong and Banpo about seven
thousand years ago. Among the popular exhibits
here are the bronze cooking tripods, Qin Burial
objects, arrows and crossbows and the terra
-cotta warrior statues. The next floor has exhibits
ranging from the Han, Western Wei and Northern
Zhou dynasties. Another section has artifacts
from the Sui, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties
whereby the ceramic-making techniques during
this period are very obvious as shown by the
terra-cotta horses, misi pottery and the Tang
dynasty statues. For visitors who needed
explanations, English guides are available.
Opening times:
8.30am to 5.30pm
Admission: 30 yuan.
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