What are the most worth visiting museums in China?

A museum is a history book of this world. Traveling to a museum is a kind of journey through time and space. Some people like to go to museums in every city when traveling. Because there you can better understand the city's culture and make people like the city more. Cultural relics are the best carrier of cultural inheritance. Only half of the historical memory of each city is recorded in writing, and the other half may be hidden in the museums of each city. 1. National Museum of China

The National Museum of China, referred to as the National Museum, is located on the east side of Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing and on the south side of East Chang'an Street. It is symmetrical to the Great Hall of the People from east to west. It is a collection that pays equal attention to history and art. It is a comprehensive museum integrating exhibitions, research, archaeology, public education and cultural exchanges. The National Museum of China is affiliated to the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The National Museum of China has a total construction area of ??nearly 200,000 square meters, a collection of more than 1 million items, and 48 exhibition halls. It is the museum with the largest single building area in the world and one of the museums with the richest collection of Chinese cultural relics. Visitors can enter directly with their ID cards. 2. Palace Museum

The Palace Museum in Beijing is a comprehensive museum in China. It was established on October 10, 1925. It is located in the Forbidden City of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Its collections include but are not limited to the imperial palaces of the Ming and Qing dynasties and its collection. The Palace Museum is China's largest ancient culture and art museum and one of the first batch of national patriotism education demonstration bases. One of the three largest palaces in the world. The Forbidden City is one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, the first batch of national 5A-level tourist attractions, and a national advanced unit for the ideological and moral construction of minors. In 1987, it was selected into the World Cultural Heritage List. 3. Shaanxi History Museum

Shaanxi History Museum is China’s first large-scale modern national museum and one of the first “AAAA” tourist attractions. It is known as the “Pearl of the Ancient Capital and the Treasure House of China”. It is located at No. 91 Xiaozhai East Road, Yanta District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, northwest of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. There are 1.71795 million cultural relics in the collection, including 762 first-class cultural relics and 18 national treasure-level cultural relics. Two of them are among the first batch of cultural relics prohibited from exporting for exhibition, ranking among the top among Chinese museums.

The appearance of the Shaanxi History Museum building deliberately highlights the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Chang'an has been an imperial capital since ancient times. In history, thirteen feudal dynasties, including Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui and Tang, established their capitals here. Rich above and below ground cultural relics form Shaanxi's unique historical and cultural features. Recognized as a world-class museum by UNESCO. 4. Nanjing Museum

Nanjing Museum is located at No. 321 Zhongshan East Road, Xuanwu District, Nanjing. It is one of the three major museums in China, referred to as Nanyuan or Nanbo. Its predecessor was initiated by Cai Yuanpei and others in the 22nd year of the Republic of China. The National Museum of Central China is the earliest museum established in China and the first large-scale comprehensive museum built with state investment. It is now a large-scale comprehensive national museum, one of the first batch of national first-level museums, one of the first batch of national museums built by central and local governments, a national AAAA tourist attraction, a national key cultural relics protection unit and China's 20th century architectural heritage.

The Nanjing Museum Cultural Relics Conservation Research Institute is known as the “Top 3A Cultural Relics Hospital” and is a key scientific research base of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage for the protection of paper cultural relics in China. As of 2018, Nanjing Museum has 432,768 collections of various types and 371,032 precious cultural relics. The number of precious cultural relics ranks second in China, second only to the Palace Museum. 5. Henan Museum

Henan Museum is located on Nongong Road, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. It is a national key museum. It is one of the earliest museums established in China and one of the first batch of national museums established by the central and local governments. one. The exhibition hall has a construction area of ??more than 55,000 square meters and a collection of more than 170,000 cultural relics. Most of the cultural relics in the collection come from archaeological excavations in Shangqiu, Luoyang, Anyang, Kaifeng, Xichuan, Sanmenxia, ??Huixian, Xinzheng and other places in the early 20th century. Prehistoric relics, Shang and Zhou bronzes, ceramics and jades from past dynasties are the most distinctive. Among them, there are more than 5,000 national first-class cultural relics and national second-class cultural relics, which have extremely high historical, cultural and artistic value. Some of the collections are praised as national treasures. During the Anti-Japanese War, some precious cultural relics from the Henan Museum were transferred to the National Museum of Taiwan. 6. Shanxi Museum

Shanxi Museum is located at No. 13, North Section of Binhe West Road, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. It is one of the first batch of national first-class museums and a national museum to be cultivated by the central and local governments. It is the largest in Shanxi Cultural relics collection, collection, protection, research and display center. Shanxi Museum has an exhibition area of ??13,000 square meters and a cultural relics storage area of ??12,000 square meters. It has a collection of more than 500,000 items, which are distinctive in bronze, porcelain, stone carvings, Buddhist statues, murals, calligraphy and paintings, etc., including 40,282 precious cultural relics. It includes 2,129 first-class cultural relics and more than 110,000 ancient books. The basic display is themed "Soul of Jin" and consists of 7 historical and cultural topics including the Cradle of Civilization, Traces of Xia and Shang, Jin Dynasty's Hegemony, National Melting Pot, Buddhist Heritage, Hometown of Opera, Shanxi Merchants of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and civil splendid chapters, mountains and rivers elites, It is composed of five art themes including calligraphy and painting, Fangyuan World, and Porcelain Garden Art. 7. Shanghai Museum

The Shanghai Museum was founded in 1952 and is currently located at No. 201 Renmin Avenue, Huangpu District, south of People’s Square in the center of Shanghai.

The Shanghai Museum has a total building area of ??39,200 square meters, covering an area of ??11,000 square meters, with two floors underground and five floors above ground. It is 29.5 meters high. It is an architectural shape that combines a square base and a round overhang, which has the Chinese "round sky and square earth" meaning. The name "Shanghai Museum" was written by Chen Yi, the first mayor of Shanghai.

The Shanghai Museum has 11 special halls and 3 exhibition halls with an exhibition area of ??2,800 square meters. The collection contains nearly one million cultural relics, including 120,000 fine cultural relics, especially bronzes, ceramics, calligraphy, and paintings. It has a collection of bronzes from Baoji, Henan, Hunan and other places. It is known as "half of the country" in the cultural relics world. It is a large-scale ancient Chinese art museum. 8. Zhejiang Provincial Museum

Zhejiang Provincial Museum is located in Xihu District, Hangzhou City. It is a national first-class museum and was founded in 1929. The Zhejiang Provincial Museum is a comprehensive humanities museum in Zhejiang Province that integrates collection, display, and research, with a collection of more than 100,000 cultural relics.

After more than ninety years of development, it has become the largest comprehensive humanities museum in Zhejiang Province, including Gushan Pavilion, Wulin Pavilion, Sha Menghai’s former residence, Huang Binhong Memorial Room, It is a multi-functional and wide-ranging new pattern that integrates collection, research, protection, display and education, including the Gudang Cultural Relics Protection Scientific Research Base. 9. Hunan Provincial Museum

The Hunan Provincial Museum is located at No. 50 Dongfeng Road, Kaifu District, Changsha City, Hunan Province. It is one of the first batch of national first-class museums in China and one of the eight national key museums built by the central and local governments. One of the museums, it is the largest comprehensive history and art museum in Hunan Province. The Hunan Provincial Museum was founded in 1897, with a total area of ??49,000 square meters, a total construction area of ??91,000 square meters, and an exhibition hall area of ??27,000 square meters. It has more than 180,000 cultural relics in its collection, especially those unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha. Cultural relics, Shang and Zhou bronzes, Chu cultural relics, ceramics from past dynasties, calligraphy and paintings, and modern cultural relics are the most distinctive. The Hunan Provincial Museum has two basic exhibitions: Changsha Mawangdui Han Tomb Exhibition and Hunan People - Sanxiang History and Culture Exhibition. Special exhibitions and exchange exhibitions are held regularly. 10. Hubei Provincial Museum

The Hubei Provincial Museum was established in 1953 and is located in the East Lake Scenic Area, Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province. It is one of the eight national-level museums established by central and local governments in the country and a national It is a national-level museum, a key scientific research base of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage for the protection of unearthed lacquerware, and a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction. It is also the largest national comprehensive museum with the richest collection and the strongest scientific research strength in Hubei Province. In 1960, Dong Biwu, then Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China, came to inspect the museum and inscribed the name of the museum himself.

The Hubei Provincial Museum covers an area of ??81,909 square meters, with a construction area of ??49,611 square meters and an exhibition hall area of ??13,427 square meters. It has the largest ancient musical instrument exhibition hall in China. The Hubei Provincial Museum currently has a collection of more than 260,000 cultural relics, among which bronzes, lacquerware, and bamboo slips are the most distinctive. Among them, 945 are national first-class cultural relics and 16 are national treasures. The sword of King Goujian of Yue, the chimes of Marquis Yi of Zeng, the human skull fossil of Yunxian County, and the plum vase with blue and white four loves pictures of Yuan Dynasty are the four major treasures of the museum.