List of museums in China

As of 2020, there are 5,788 museums in China,[1] including 3,054 state-owned museums (museums run by national and local government or universities) and 535 private museums. In 2021, the nation's museums saw approximately 779 million visitors.[2] Some museums of cultural relics, such as the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, have become internationally known tourist attractions. The government has exchanges of cultural relics exhibitions between museums and promotes the display and exchanges of legal non-governmental collections. The museums are classified into several grades, with the national first-grade museums being the highest classification.

List

Below is a list of museums in China grouped by the provinces or municipalities where they are located.

  • Anhui Provincial Museum
  • Anhui Hall of Fame
  • Anhui Paleontology Fossil Museum
  • Bengbu Museum
  • China Huizhou Tax Museum
  • Ma'anshan Museum
  • She County Museum
  • Guangxi Museum
  • Anthropology Museum Of Guangxi
  • Liuzhou Museum
  • Museum of Guihai Tablets Forest
  • Guuzhou Provincial Museum
  • Heilongjiang Provincial Museum
  • Xuzhou Museum
  • Xuzhou Decree Museum
  • Cultural Site of Han Dynasty
    • Lion Hill Chu Prince Mausoleum
    • Aquatic Terracotta Warrior Museum
    • Museum of Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses of The Han Dynasty
    • Han Dynasty Stone Relief Gallery
    • Han Dynasty Cultural and Artistic Museum

Other cities

  • Jiujiang British Concession Museum
  • Jiujiang Museum
  • Jiujiang Folk Culture Museum
  • Jiujiang Urban Planning Exhibition Centre
  • Jiujiang Fine Arts Museum
  • Jiujiang Forest Museum

See also

References

  1. ^ 李潇阳. "Traditional museums in China get innovative to woo the public-- Beijing Review". www.bjreview.com. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
  2. ^ 陈柳兵. "Nation's museums attracted almost 780 million visitors in 2021". global.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
  3. ^ "中国科学技术馆".
  4. ^ a b c Li, Jie (2016). "Museums and Memorials of the Mao Era: A Survey and Notes for Future Curators". In Li, Jie; Zhang, Enhua (eds.). Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution. Harvard Contemporary China Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 978-0-674-73718-1.
  5. ^ Aurora Museum
  6. ^ Zhang, Chuchu (2025). China's Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum?. Changing Dynamics in Asia-Middle East Relations series. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-032-76275-3.
  7. ^ Y. Ho, Denise (2016). "Making a Revolutionary Monument: The Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party". In Li, Jie; Zhang, Enhua (eds.). Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution. Harvard Contemporary China series. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 978-0-674-73718-1.