Located in the Yellow River, the gansu museum is one of the earliest comprehensive museum in China. Its predecessor, gansu science education center, founded in 1939, was changed to the northwest people's science museum in 1950, renamed the gansu provincial museum in 1956 and moved to the new museum in 1958. In 1999 by the provincial government, setting up projects of investment of 150 million yuan for the exhibition building, library covers an area of 108 mu, a total construction area of 28500 square meters, the new exhibition building 18 exhibition hall, a hospital and storage, laboratory and other facilities for the protection of cultural relics, 2006 officially opened on December 26 new exhibition building. Thanks to the rich cultural deposits of gansu and the large number of precious cultural relics left by longyuan, gansu provincial museum has a unique collection of resources. Collection of precious historical relics, natural a total of more than 350000 specimens, including 16 (group), the national cultural relics at the national level cultural relics, 721 (set), secondary 2637 pieces of cultural relics (group), level 3 48241 pieces of cultural relics (group), collected from ancient times to modern times in gansu province a large number of cultural treasures. Collection of cultural relics in paleontological fossil specimens, painted pottery, slips of han dynasty, han and tang dynasties, the silk road treasures, buddhist art, modern revolutionary historical data, such as unique, also occupy the important position in the Chinese cultural treasure.

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