List of museums in China

As of 2013, there are 3,589 museums in China,[1] including 3,054 state-owned museums (museums run by national and local government or universities) and 535 private museums. With a collection of over 20 million items, these museums hold more than 8,000 exhibitions every year and 160 million people visits. Some museums of cultural relics, such as the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, have become internationally known tourist attractions. The government has exchanges of cultural relics exhibitions between museums and promotes the display and exchanges of legal non-governmental collections.

List

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Below is a list of museums in China grouped by the provinces or municipalities where they are located.

Anhui

Beijing

Chongqing

Fujian

Gansu

Guangdong

Guangxi

Hainan

Hebei

Henan

Hong Kong SAR

Hubei

Hunan

Inner Mongolia

Jiangsu

Mock classroom of a traditional confucious private school in China. Taken at the Nanjing Educational Museum at Nanjing Number 1 Middle School.

Jilin

Liaoning

Macau

Qinghai

Shaanxi

Shandong

Shanghai

Shanxi

Sichuan

Tianjin

Tibet Autonomous Region

Xinjiang

Yunnan

Zhejiang

See also

References

  1. "China has 3,589 museums nationwide". kaogo.net.cn. Chinese Archeology. 2013-01-04. Retrieved 2013-01-15.
  2. http://www.cstm.org.cn/

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