List of museums in the People's Republic of China

The Palace Museum in the once Forbidden City

Mao Museum , Changsha

Museums in the People's Republic of China (incomplete) Note on the names: mostly the English-language names of the museums are given on their or the state websites. Visitors to China may find what they are looking for on site, even if they do not know or cannot use the Chinese name.

Beijing (Peking)

National Museum

BMNH Lufengosaurus m.

• National Museum of China (Zhongguo guojia bowuguan, rededicated in 2003; previously Museum of the History of China and Museum of the Chinese Revolution )
• China Railway Museum ( Chaoyang , 2002)
• China's Great Wall Museum - The Great Wall, the museum (An important gate of the Great Wall of China , the so-called Bādálǐng ( 八達嶺  /  八达岭 ) northwest of Beijing (Juyongguan, museum since 1994), is located in the Yan Mountains . It is said to be representative of a Number of information points about the Great Wall of China.)
• Museum for Tap Water (Beijing's Museum of Tap Water.), Actually it's about the water supply - construction started in 1908, in a pumping station on the site of the first Beijing waterworks (Dongzhimen subway station, near the Russian embassy)
• Beijing ziran bowuguan (Beijing Museum of Natural History - BMNH, Chongwen , 1951. Original name National Central Natural History Museum; e.g. dinosaurs)
• Dabaotai Western Han Tombs Museum (Fengtai; 1979; Tombs of the Western Han Dynasty )
• Gudai Jianzhu Bowuguan (Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum, Xuanwu, 1991; Xiannong Building - Taisui Dian (Jupiter Hall), Mingepoche, 1532)
• Museum of Tibetan Culture (Xizang wenhua bowuguan)
• National Art Museum of China (NAMOC, also China Fine Arts Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts; with emphasis on modern and contemporary art), 1 Wusi Dajie, East District / Dongcheng District, 1963/2005
• Palace Museum (Běijīng Gùgōng Bówùyuàn, 1925)
• Ullens Center for Contemporary Arts ( Chaoyang )
• Zhongguo dizhi bowuguan (Geological Museum of China, 1916; first natural science / geological museum in China)
• Zhongguo yishi bowuguan (National Museum of Medical History )
• Zhōngguó rénmín gémìng jūnshì bówùguǎn (China People's Revolution Military Museum - Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution; Museum of the People's Liberation Army )
• Zhongguo kexue jishu guan (China Science and Technology Museum, 1988)

Changsha

• Mao Tsê – tung (Mao Zedong) Museum (see Mao Zedong , personality cult )

Summer Palace, Chengde

Chengde

• Chengde Summer Resort (Imperial Summer Palace , Chinese 避暑 山庄, Bì Shŭ Shānzhuāng) 1703

Fujian

• Quanzhou Museum

The former Foshan Ancestral Temple

Foshan

• Foshan Museum

Gansu

• Gansu Provincial Museum in Lanzhou

Si Lü

Guangzhou

(G. in Guangdong Province, also canton out of date)

• Museum of the Western Han Dynasty Mausoleum of the Nanyue King (Western Han Dynasty)
• Guangdong Provincial Museum
• Guangdong Museum of Art

Guangdong

• Dongguan Science and Technology Museum
• Longgang museum of Hakka culture , Longgang
• Shenzhen Museum
• Tianjing Museum of Theater

see. Tianjing

Guangxi

• Guangxi Museum
• Guangxi Museum of Nationalities
• Liuzhou Museum
• Museum of Guihai Tablets Forest

Hangzhou

• Zhejiang Meishuguan ( 浙江 美术馆 , Zhèjiāng Měishùguǎn ). Zhejiang Art Museum; Zhejiang Art Museum; opened in 2009.
• Zhongguo sichou bowuguan (China National Silk Museum, 1992; silk )
• Zhōngguó Shīdì Bówùguǎn (National Chinese Wetlands Museum; 中国 湿 地 博物馆; 2009)
• Zhōngguó Yìnxué Bówùguǎn (National Chinese Seal Museum; 中国 印 学 博物馆; 1999)
• Zhejiang Provincial Museum (浙江省 博物馆; founded 1929)
• Zhejiang Natural History Museum (Zhejiang Museum of Natural History; 浙江 自然博物馆; goes back to a foundation in 1929. Current name since 1984.)

Henan

• Henan Museum , Zhengzhou
• Guo State Museum , Sanmenxia

Po Leung Kuk Museum

Hong Kong

(Hong Kong SAR, Chinese Xiānggǎng; English Hong Kong)

• Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defense
• Hong Kong Heritage Museum ( Sha Tin )
• Hong Kong Museum of Art (Kowloon)
• Hong Kong Film Archives
• Hong Kong Museum of History
• Hong Kong Science Museum
• Hong Kong Space Museum (Kowloon, virtual planetarium)
• Hong Kong Visual Arts Center
• Law Uk Folk Museum
• Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum ( Sham Shui Po ; Han Dynasty tomb , formerly the Lei Cheng Uk Branch Museum )
• Museum of Tea Ware (Flagstaff House)
• Po Leung Kuk Museum
• Hong Kong Railway Museum
• Sam Tung Uk Museum ( Tsuen Wan , replica of a Hakka settlement)
• Sheung Yiu Folk Museum
• Dr. Sun Yat-sen Museum
• Tsui Museum of Art

Hubei

• Wuhan Museum (1985; provincial museum; also large collection of musical instruments )

Jiangsu

• Presidential Palace until 1949 (China Modern History Museum)
• Suzhou Arts and Crafts Museum
• Yangzhou Museum (China Block Printing Museum)
• Xuzhou Museum
• Taiping Kingdom History Museum , Nanjing (On the Taiping Uprising , 1850–1864)
• The Museum of Guangling King's Tomb in Han Dynasty , Yangzhou ( Liu Che (Han Wudi) , Han emperor 141 BC to 87 BC)
• Xiaoling Mausoleum of Hongwu near Nanjing

Jilin

• Museum of Imperial Palace of Manchu State , Changchun ( Manchu dynasty , as a puppet regime of Japan's Manchukuo , Pu Yi - the last emperor, 1934 to 1945)

Jinan

• List of museums in Jinan

Liaoning

• Dalian Natural History Museum
• Dalian Modern Museum
• Shenyang Steam Locomotive Museum

Liuwan

• Qinghai Liuwan caitao bowuguan ( Ledu Province, Qinghai Province; Liuwan Museum of Ancient Painted Pottery; 37,925 objects, mainly pottery products from the Neolithic Age ; also research center, 2004)

Fire Brigade Museum

Macau

• Macau Museum of Art
• Fire Services Museum
• Museum of Macau
• Museu Marítimo (Maritime Museum)
• Museum of the Holy House of Mercy
• Sun Yat Sen Memorial House ( Sun Yat Sen )

Nanjing

Nanjing Museum

(see also under Jiangsu )

• China Modern History Museum
• John Raven House
• Nanjing Museum
• Taiping Kingdom History Museum
• Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall (Memorial Exhibition of the 1937 Nanking Massacre )

Nantong

• Nantong Museum (opened in 1905 as the first modern museum in China; an extension by Wu Liangyong in 2005 )
• Nantong Textile Museum (China's first textile museum, 1985; museum building from 1906)

QingDao

• QingDao municipal museum (The two Zhangba Buddha statues)

(As Kiautschau (Chinese Jiāozhōu), Tsingtau in Kiautschou was a naval base and capital of a German colony from 1898 to 1914, buildings from this era exist)

Shandong

• Shandong Science & Technology Museum
• The Confucius Temple, Family Seat, and Woods (Qufu, Confucius )

Shanghai Museum

Shanghai (Shanghai)

• Shanghai Auto Museum
• China Art Museum
• Power Station of Art
• Rockbund Art Museum
• Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
• Shanghai Museum
• Shanghai Art Museum
• Shanghai Entomological Museum
• Shanghai History Museum (history)
• Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
• China Maritime Museum
• CY Tung Maritime Museum
• Shanghai Museum of TCM ( Traditional Chinese Medicine )
• Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MOCA Shanghai), Museum of Contemporary Art
• Shanghai ziran bowuguan (Shanghai Natural History Museum, Huangpu, 1950; building of the former cotton market from 1920)
• Urban Planning Museum
• Song Ching Ling Memorial Residence in Shanghai
• Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum

Map of wall sections. See Beijing and Shanhaiguan

Shanhaiguan

• Mountain-Ocean-Pass (Great Wall of China)

Shaoxing

• Lan Ting Orchid Pavilion

Shaanxi

• Shaanxi Historical Museum ( Xi'an )
• Xi'an Beilin Museum (Xi'an)
• Datong Museum (Monastery)

see: Xi'an

Shanxi

Xuánkōng Sì (Hanging Monastery) , Hunyuan (6th century, during the Northern Wei Dynasty)

Mao Zedong's birthplace in Shaoshan

Shaoshan

• Mao Zedong's birthplace (memorial, less of a museum)

Shenyang

• Shenyang zhengqi jiche bowuguan (Shenyang Steam Locomotive Museum; 15 locomotives built between 1907 and 1972 , focus on the 1930s) See also the Beijing Railway Museum at the China Academy of Railway Sciences

Sichuan

• Sichuan Museum (四川 博物院, Sìchuān Bówùguǎn), Chengdu
• Chengdu Sichuan Brocade and Embroidery Museum (成都 蜀锦 织绣 博物馆 Chéngdū Shǔjĭn Zhīxiù bó wù guǎn) Chengdu
• Zigong Dinosaur Museum , Zigong ( Zigong konglong bowuguan , 1987)
• Earthquake Stele Forest of Xichang ( Xīchāng dìzhèn bēilín , Xichang Earthquake Stele Forest , 1944 - renamed 1992; 100 steles about the circumstances of major earthquakes from 745 to 1850; building: Confucian. Temple 1087, seven halls with approx. 3,000 steles, main building 1963)
• Zigong Salt History Museum , Zigong
• Sichuan Science and Technology Museum , Chengdu
• Du Fu Cao Tang ( Thatched Cottage of Du Fu ), Chengdu
• Sanxingdui Museum
• Jinsha Site Museum
• Chinese Color Lantern Museum
• The residence of the Liu family in Dayi (Dayi Liushi zhuangyuan) of landlord Liu Wencai , on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China since 1996 (4-212)
• Jianchuan Museum Cluster in Anren , Dayi County

Deng Yingchao and Zhou Enlai, 1954

Tibet

• Tibet Museum

Tianjin

• Luzutang ( Boxer Riot Museum)
• Zhou Enlai Memorial ( Zhou Enlai )
• Tianjin Museum (Developed from Tianjin Art Museum and Historical Museum )
• Tianjin Natural History Museum

see. Guangdong

Terracotta Army Museum , 2002

Xiamen

• Tulou , circular courtyards (also Hakka houses; UNESCO World Heritage)

Gulangyu Island :

• Gu Lang Yu Piano Museum
• Gulangyu Organ Museum

Terracotta Army Warriors

Xi'an

• Museum of the Terracotta Army ( Mausoleum Qín Shǐhuángdìs - Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (221 BC ff); construction of the museum complex began in 1975; World Heritage List 1987)
• Banpo settlement
• Shaanxi Historical Museum (1991)

Yangzhou

• Yangzhou Museum (pictures and research center for the painting school of the " Eight Eccentrics ")
• Tomb of Bulhading (testimony to Muslim influence)

Yunnan

• Yuxi Museum ( Yuxi Museum , Yuxi ; Paleontological Museum)
• Yunnan Nationality Museum (Ethnographic Museum)
• Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology

Guoqing Temple (Zhejiang)

Zhejiang

• China National Tea Museum ( Shuangfeng )
• Zhongguo sichou bowuguan, engl. China National Silk Museum ( Hangzhou , 1992, National Silk Museum; silk )
• Zhoushan Museum
• China Grand Canal Museum ( Imperial Canal )
• Zhejiang Provincial Museum (浙江省 博物馆; founded 1929; Hangzhou)
• Zhejiang Natural History Museum (Zhejiang Museum of Natural History; 浙江 自然博物馆; goes back to a foundation in 1929. Current name since 1984.)
• see also: Guoqing Temple (Guóqīng sì; historically important Buddhist temple, 598 Sui dynasty; Mahayana )
• Zhejiang Meishuguan ( 浙江 美术馆 , Zhèjiāng Měishùguǎn ). Zhejiang Art Museum; Zhejiang Art Museum; opened in 2009.

See also

• Office for Cultural Heritage ( abbreviation : 国家 文物 局, English: State Administration of Cultural Heritage ), subordinate to the Ministry of Culture , runs the state museums
• Chinese imperial palaces
• Chinese history
• Chinese architecture
• Monuments of the People's Republic of China
• Cultural objects with a ban on exhibition outside the People's Republic of China
• List of state museums 1st class (by region, also only VR)
• In what is now the Republic of China (Taiwan) , the National Palace Museum in Taipei exhibits important collections of Chinese art.
• All over the world, collections with a focus on China are very often found as part of the Sinology subject of universities or of national / ethnological museums - examples of Chinese art in European museums

Web links

Commons : Museums in China  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• www.china-culture.com (chin.)
• Museums in China (at chinaculture.org)
• China's museums by provinces (at chinamuseums.com)
• 2005 data: over 2200 museums with 160 million visitors - of which 1,509 are state museums (usually managed at provincial level); there are other museums run by companies, universities and purely private museums.
• List of the 43 World Heritage Sites in China (English)