Attraction in Xian:Shaanxi Provincial History Museum

Shaanxi Provincial History Museum

The newly-built Shaanxi Provincial History Museum sits on the north-west of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an southern suburb. In this state-level museum, the essential cultural relics of tracing back from the Lantian (a county in Shaanxi) pithecanthrope of the prehistory to the different Chinese dynasties and to the First Sino-British Opium War (1840--1842) are exhibited in the Local History Hall. This hall covers an area of 6000sq.m, including two stories centrally located in the museum. In the west side within the museum is the Theme Exhibition Hall covering 2500sq.m, where shows the special themes with Shaanxi historical and cultural features such as the Silk Road, Yaozhou Porcelain etc. The opposite of the Theme Exhibition Hall is the Historical and Cultural Exhibition Hall (or East Exhibition Hall) covering a floor space of 2500sq.m. This hall is used for Sino-foreign cultural exchange and receiving and showing the quintessence of culture and antiquities from the other provinces and municipal cities of China. Moreover, there are some tributary facilities in the museum such as the Protection Centre of Cultural Relics, Library and Multifunctional Academic Report Hall etc.

The Shaanxi Provincial History Museum is a combined building of the classical Chinese palatial architecture, courtyard architecture and modern architecture, with which makes a very well match the architectural styles of the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the modern architectural styles. The tiles covered on the roof of the museum are the mignonette glazed tiles that popular in Tang Dynasty (A.D.618-907), its walls built with the pastiche asbestos bricks, and the windows installed with the big brown glass and aluminium alloy frames. The whole building looks very Magnificent, massive, elegant and graceful. Under the cover of the trees and the interspersion of the lawns, every corner of the museum seems to permeate through the ancient flavor. It is a grand building!It is an excellent ubication for learning Chinese history and sight-seeing!

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