Gansu Provincial Museum

Gansu Provincial Museum

甘肃省博物馆
File:New Exhibition Building of the Gansu Provincial Museum.jpg The newly refurbished exhibition building
Location within China
Former name	Gansu Science and Education Museum
Established	1939
Location	Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China
Coordinates
Key holdings	Flying Horse of Gansu
Collections	Silk Road, Neolithic, Natural Science
Collection size	355,364
Director	E. Jun
Website	www.gansumuseum.com English: [1]

The Gansu Provincial Museum (Chinese: 甘肃省博物馆; pinyin: Gānsù Shěng Bówùguăn) is a museum in Lanzhou, China. Its collections include over 350,000 artefacts, in two main sections: history and natural science. Since its foundation, the museum has held almost 300 exhibitions, and items from its collections have been exhibited worldwide. The museum was originally only for the history of Gansu itself, but was re-purposed in 1956 to be a natural history museum, after three years of renovations.

Exhibitions

A major holding of the museum is the Flying Horse of Gansu, a bronze sculpture from Eastern Han dynasty, around the 2nd century AD. Apart from this, the museum has permanent exhibitions on:

• Buddhist art
• Fossils and paleontology
• Painted pottery
• Silk Road civilization
• 'Red Gansu' (Communist Party during the Chinese Civil War)

See also

• Gansu Flying Horse
• Silk Route Museum

External links

• Travel China Guide