Qinghai Provincial Museum

Qinghai Provincial Museum is the first comprehensive museum with modern equipments in Qinghai Province. Covering an area of 17,000 square meters with the construction area of 20,800 square meters, it is a magnificent Tang style simulation building with an exhibition area of 9,146 square meters. The museum was awarded “National Patriotism Education Base” by State Administration of Cultural Heritage in 1997, and it is a symbolic architecture in Xining.

Qinghai Provincial Museum contains over 47,000 well- preserved culture relics. Some of the important collections in the museum are the chipped stone tools from the Paleolithic Age, the pottery wares and the bronze wares from the Neolithic Age and the Bronze Age, the bronze mirror, the bronze warrior and inscriptions from the Han (206 B.C-220 A.D.) and the Tang Dynasties (618 A.D.-907 A.D.), the paper money and stone statues from the Yuan Dynasty (1,206 A.D.-1,368 A.D.), the porcelains and paintings from the Ming (1,368- A.D.1,644 A.D.) and the Qing Dynasties (1,616 A.D.-1,911 A.D.).

Displays of Qinghai Provincial Museum are composed of 4 Exhibition Hall, namely, the exhibition halls of Qinghai Pre-history Civilization, Qinghai Ethical Cultural Relics, Qinghai Tibetan Buddhism Arts and Lovely Qinghai. Each exhibition has its own features, reflecting different development phases of Qinghai in the forms of material objects. The Lovely Qinghai Exhibition fully displays the unique landscapes of Qinghai in the form of photos, assisted by animal samples and mineral samples as well as modern audio and electrical equipments. The rich natural resources such as oil and natural gas are well displayed in the exhibition, which demonstrates great changes taking places in Qinghai after the reforming opening up policy.

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Address: located in No. 58, Xiguan Avenue, Xining
Bus routes: 9, 25, 12, 18, 40, 2, 84, 85 and 31
Opening hours: 9:30 am -4:00pm from Tuesday to Sunday