Shanghai Museum

THE Shanghai Museum,founded in 1952, and nowlocated at the ShanghaiRenmin Square, is a largemuseum exhibiting ancient Chinese arts. It houses a collectionof 120.000 cultural relics, includ-ing bronzeware, ceramics,Ming and Qing dynasty furniture, calli-graphic works. paintings, jade and ivory articles, bamboo, wood and lacquer ware, inscribed bones andtortoise shells, seals. and ethnicminority handicrafts. Amongthem, the bronzeware. ceramicsand Ming and Qing furniture are the most characte…     

Zhenjiang Museum

THE Zhenjiang Museum, constructed in 1958, consists of a group of five East Indian garden style buildings. It houses more than 30,000 Chinese historical relics, from the Neolithic Age to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911),     

The Lianyungang Museum

THE LianyungangMuseum, in Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, used to be an undiscovered treasure trove of cultural relics. Since the discovery of a mysterious female corpse, preserved for 2,000 years in the moist sands of eastern China, this has changed.     

Suzhou Silk Museum

SILK production in China has a history of 6,000 years. As early as the fifth century B.C., silk was exported to Asia, Europe and Africa along the Old Silk Road, making an outstanding contribution to world civilization. Suzhou has been a silk producer for centuries, and China's first silk museum was built in this ancient city.Suzhou Silk Museum is multi-functional, and combines exhibits with demonstrations of silk weaving. Exhibits on display in its various exhibition halls reflect the or…     

Shaanxi History Museum

NORTHWEST China’s Shaanxi Province has arich historical and cultural background.Astwelve of China’s feudal dynasties chosecities in Shaanxi as their capital,many cultur—al relics reinain there,earning Shaanxi the epithet“natural museum of Chinese history.”The ShaanxiHistory Museum,in the southern suburbs of Xi’an,     

China Sports Museum

THE China Sports Museum,inside the NationalOlympic Sports Center on3A Anding Road,Andingmenwai, Beijing, isChina's first museum dedicatedto the nation's sporting history.Its exterior is in the shape of anoctagonal spiral, with whitewalls and a red roof, and itsexhibits record the developmentof sport in China through theages.     

The Palace Museum

Established in 1925, the Palace Museum is located inside the Forbidden City from where Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasty emperors administered China. Situated in the heart of Beijing, the Palace     

Tianjin Folklore Museum

TIANJIN Folklore Museum is a specialized museum that follows the principle of "studying and displaying the folklore of Tianjin, and collecting and preserving historical relics of folklore that are characteristic of Tianjin."Located on the former site of the Palace of the Goddess of the Sea (Tianhou Gong) in Tianjin, one of China's three largest of this kind, (the other two being the Ma Zu Temple in Meizhou, Fujian Province and the Chaotian Temple in Beigang, Taiwan), the Tianjin Fol…     

Night at the Museum

In the 2006 Hollywood blockbuster Night at the Museum, main pro-tagonist Larry Daley experiences a thrilling, action-packed night at the Museum of Natural History in New York City, when an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and unleash chaos onto the city. On May 18, another Night came to the Capital Museum in Beijing, but this time visitors could just enjoy a cloud tour.     

The Poly Art Museum

THE Poly Art Museum isnear the Dongsi ShitiaoOverpass in Beijing.Since its opening inDecember 1999, the museumhas been active in its pursuit ofprecious cultural relics lost bothdomestically and abroad, fol-lowing the principle of "pursu-ing neither quantity nor diversi-ty, but rather exquisiteness,rari-ty and preciousness."In the spring of 2000, themuseum retrieved and housedthree treasures originating fromthe Yuan Ming Yuan (the OldSummer Palace)─ the bronzeheads of an ox, a tiger and …     

Imperial City Art Museum

EAST of Tian’anmenRostrum,ten minutes’walk from the ForbiddenCity is a traditionalsiheyuan(quadrangle).Itis site of the newlyopened ImperialCity Art Museum.One of the fourancient cities(outer,inner,     

Ancient Pottery Civilization Museum

THE Ancient Pottery Civilization Museum isprivately owned. Pottery is one of humanity's earliest creations. Museum displaysshow visitors how pottery's developmentreflects the evolution of human civilization.The underground exhibition hall, covering anarea of several hundred square meters, features fivedifferent exhibits. One exhibit, "A Den of PaintedPottery" displays several hundred painted potterypieces from the Yellow River valley. Painted potterydeveloped during the mid-Neolithic age…     

China Draft Bank Museum

Museum,locatedontheformersiteofRishengchangDraftBank,inPingyaoCounty,ShanxiProvince,isakeyhistoricalsiteunderprovincialprotection.Adraftbank,calledpiaohaoorpiaozhuanginChinese,isabankinginstitutionoriginatedbyShanximerchantsdealingindrafts,orbillsofexchange,payableintownsandcitiesinwhichtheydidbusiness.ItisthepredecessorofChinesecontemporarybanks.RishengchangwasChina'searliestdraftbank,foundedin1823intheearlyyearsofEmperorDaoguang'sreignduringtheQingDynasty(1644-1911).TheLiDaquanbrother…     

Mysterious Tibet

At the center of the earth lies Tibet, where rivers originate from towering snow mountains, where soil is clean and unsullied, where people are brave and kind-hearted... - Quoted from ancient documents found in Dunhuang Grottoes     

Impressive Tibet

正After nearly 5 hours of flight from Beijing,our plane lands at Gonggar Airport in Lhasa,Tibet Autonomous Region.I am standing in China's extreme southwestern corner,almost4,000 km from the capital.The terrain here is mountainous.As soon as I step onto the ground,a strange atmosphere and very dry and strong winds greet me,and I am struck by     

Talking Tibet

The Tibet Pavilion provides a rare glimpse into the natural beauty and cultural majesty of Tibet.Tian Fuli,Director of the Tibet Pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai,spoke about the pavilion with Expo Weekly.     

Unpleasant Nights at The Museum

<正>A slew of scandals involving the Palace Museum has drawn attention to the plight of China’s public museums The curator of Beijing’s Palace Museum,Zheng Xinmiao,has been a largely low-profile figure,and his name only became known to most average Chinese citizens after the Xinhua News Agency released an interview with him in August,in which Zheng apologized for a string of mishaps in the institution that houses the largest collection of China’s national treasures.     

A Private Folk Carving Museum

SITUATED onLiulichang, Beijing's antique street is the architecturally important Songtangzhai Folk Carving Museum. Privately owned by manager Li Songtang's family, this gallery is a two-story building from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and is the best-preserved