Address: 91 East XiaoZhai Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China
Website:www.sxhm.com
Shaanxi History Museum is located in the northwest of the Xi’an Wild Goose Pagoda. It is China’s first large-scale modern national museum; it marks that China’s museum career has entered into a new development mileage. The Museum has the style of Tang dynasty buildings of “central palace hall with four worship houses around” with orderly, harmonious, vigorous and grave construction, melting the national tradition, local characteristics and the spirit of time into an organic whole. The Museum covers an area of 65,000 square meters.
Shaanxi History Museum was constructed from 1983. It was opened to the public on 20 June 1991. The museum is in an area of 65,000 square meters, with a building area of 55,600 square meters, cultural relics storerooms of 8,000 square meters, exhibition halls of 11,000 square meters, and a collection of 370,000 objects. The museum is architecturally in the Tang style, with a "hall in center, storied buildings in corners". It is elegant and dignified, on a large scale, with a combination of traditional architecture and modern technology, which embodies folk tradition and local features.
Shaanxi was the ancient imperial capital of China, having been the seat of more than 13 feudal dynasties, including the Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties. The province is rich in cultural relics. With the completion of the Shaanxi History Museum, it collected over 370,000 precious relics which were unearthed in Shaanxi Province, including bronze wares, pottery figures, and mural paintings in Tang tombs.
Since the opening of the museum, it has followed the policy of collecting, conservation, publicizing, education, and scientific research, using its many historical relics, and conducted various types of display. The relics have also been exhibited overseas in cities in Japan, France, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.
The free open time is from every Tuesday to Sunday, visiting time: winter (November 15 to March 15 of the next year) 9:00am-17:30pm (16:00pm stop offering tickets), the summer (March 16 to November 14), 8:30 am-18:00pm (16:30pm stop offering tickets). It is closed all day on Mondays for refurbishment (except national legal holidays).
1.《神韵与辉煌:陕西历史博物馆国宝鉴赏(金银器卷)》
Author: 冀东山
Pages:165
ISBN: 9787807360575
Date of Publication: 2006
Press: 三秦出版社
2.《神韵与辉煌:陕西历史博物馆国宝鉴赏(唐墓壁画卷)》
Author: 申秦雁
Pages:241
ISBN: 9787807360582
Date of Publication: 2006
Press: 三秦出版社
3.《神韵与辉煌:陕西历史博物馆国宝鉴赏(陶瓷器卷)》
Author: 董理
Pages:141
ISBN: 9787807360599
Date of Publication: 2006
Press: 三秦出版社
4.《神韵与辉煌:陕西历史博物馆国宝鉴赏(青铜器卷)》
Author: 冀东山、梁彦民
Pages:225
ISBN: 9787807360551
Date of Publication: 2006
Press: 三秦出版社
Ancient civilizations of Shannxi
Show Time:Permanent
Venues:The first showroom
The special exbition of Dong Zuobin's life and oracle research
Show Time:2014-09-30 To 2014-12-28
Venues:South hall of the west showroom
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