What are the four major museums in China?

1. The Palace Museum: The Palace Museum is located in the center of Beijing. It was officially established in 1925. It is the largest museum with the largest collection in my country and one of the largest museums in the world.

2. Shaanxi Provincial Museum: The Shaanxi Provincial Museum is located at the former site of the Confucian Temple on Sanxue Street, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. The Confucian Temple was first built during the Xuanhe reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, more than 870 years ago. It has been repaired many times through the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. The museum was built in 1952. It has 10 showrooms and a display area of ??more than 4,000 square meters. It is a museum with classical architectural form and gardening.

3. Nanjing Museum: Nanjing Museum is located at No. 321, Zhongshan East Road, Zhongshanmen, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. It was founded in 1933 and covers an area of ??approximately 90,000 square meters. Its predecessor is the "Central Museum", which is a famous collection of cultural relics in China. It has a collection of hundreds of thousands of art treasures from past dynasties, palace cultural relics of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and ethnic minority treasures. It is a museum of the history of all dynasties and an art museum. . The exhibition mainly focuses on historical cultural relics excavated in Jiangsu, recreating the development history of mankind from ancient times to 1919.

4. Shanghai Museum: The Shanghai Museum is located at the intersection of Yan'an East Road and Henan Road in Shanghai. It is one of the largest museums in China. The museum was built in 1952 and currently has a collection of more than 110,000 items. It is famous at home and abroad for its exquisite collection of Shang and Zhou bronzes, ceramics from past dynasties, and ancient calligraphy and paintings. Among them, bronzes such as the Dake Ding of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Sheng Zun of the late Spring and Autumn Period, ceramics such as the Yuejiao Begonia-style bowl of the Tang Dynasty, and calligraphy and paintings such as "Yatouwantie" presented by the Jin Dynasty king and "Gao Yitu" by Tang Sunwei are all world-renowned. It is a rare treasure, and the "Essential Volume of the Surangama Sutra" handwritten by King Anshi of the Song Dynasty is the first to be disclosed in existence.

Extended information:

According to statistics from the "China Museum Industry Market Prospects and Investment Strategic Planning Analysis Report", the number of registered museums in China has grown from more than 2,200 to 3,589 , and continues to grow at a rate of about 100 per year. On average, there is one museum for every 400,000 people in China; by 2020, there will be one museum for every 250,000 people. There are more than 400 private museums registered in China, and including those that have not been officially registered, the number has reached nearly a thousand. In recent years, museum grade evaluation and museum operation evaluation have been conducted successively, and 83 first-class museums have been rated as first class, which is the first phalanx representing the level of Chinese museums. ?

According to the 2012 National Museum Directory released by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage in July 2013, by the end of 2012, there were 3,866 registered museums across the country, including 3,219 state-owned museums (2,560 state-owned museums managed by the cultural relics administrative department) There are 659 state-owned museums in other industries) and 647 private museums.

In order to serve the public, there are now 3,322 museums with a higher degree of specialization, relatively complete functions, and obvious social effects. Including 2,843 state-owned museums (2,292 state-owned museums managed by the cultural relics administrative department and 551 state-owned museums in other industries) and 479 private museums.