What is the contact number of Gansu Provincial Museum?

Contact information of Gansu Provincial Museum: Tel: 0931-2346308

Fax: 0931-2334106

Address: 3 Xijin West Road, Qilihe District, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province Number.

Gansu Provincial Museum Attractions Introduction:

Located on the south side of Xijin West Road, Qilihe District, Lanzhou City, it is a provincial-level geographical museum. Its predecessor was the Gansu Science Education Center established in 1939 by the Sino-British Boxer Indemnity Board of Directors. The Gansu Provincial Museum covers an area of ??more than 100 acres. The main building is in the shape of a "mountain". The main building in the middle has 5 floors, and the two wings have 3 floors each. They are connected by a corridor, with a construction area of ??18,000 square meters. The main building has 13 exhibition halls, 1 lecture hall, and 12 lounges; the museum consists of the History Department, Nature Department, Socialist Construction Department, Mass Work Department, Technology Department, Office, Security Department, etc. *** has 140 staff, including 2/3 business staff, 15 senior researchers, 27 mid-level researchers, and 40 junior researchers. It is very strong. The Gansu Provincial Museum has a rich collection and is one of the famous provincial museums in the country. There are more than 100,000 pieces of historical relics, ethnic cultural relics and natural specimens in the museum. Its three outstanding features are painted pottery, silk road treasures of the Han and Tang dynasties and Buddhist art treasures, especially the famous "Bronze Galloping Horse" and precious ancient bronzes. The fossil "Yellow River Stegodon" is famous.

The museum’s collections include more than 75,000 natural specimens, historical relics, revolutionary relics and national cultural relics, and more than 110 first-class collections, such as Gansu painted pottery and the world-famous pottery unearthed from the Leitai Han Tomb in Wuwei. Bronze galloping horses (see picture) and groups of chariot and horse figurines, medical prescription slips from the Han Dynasty, "Bian Hua" from the Second Year of Chunhua in the Northern Song Dynasty (991), etc. Among the natural specimens, there are specimens of China's unique animals such as giant pandas, golden monkeys and red-crowned cranes. Historical relics account for two-thirds of the collection. The most distinctive ones are various types of painted pottery from the Neolithic Age, wooden slips and wood carvings from the Han Dynasty, Buddhist statues and scriptures from the Sixteenth Kingdom to the Tang Dynasty, etc. Revolutionary cultural relics include slogans left over from the Red Army’s Long March. The museum has an exhibition area of ??more than 7,500 square meters and has 5 large-scale fixed exhibitions. The "Gansu Historical Relics" exhibition displays more than 1,500 historical relics unearthed in Gansu, systematically reflecting the historical development of Gansu, focusing on the painted pottery of various cultures in the Neolithic Age in Gansu, and Hexi, the chokepoint of the Silk Road. The cultural relics of the Han and Tang Dynasties unearthed in the corridor, Buddhist art and scripture writing from the Sixteen Kingdoms to the Sui and Tang Dynasties and other physical objects related to cultural exchanges between China and the West. The "Natural Rich Sources of Gansu" exhibition features 1,380 objects and models, comprehensively introducing Gansu's administrative divisions, population, ethnic groups, transportation, climate, hydrology, soil, animals, plants, and mineral resources. The exhibition "Jiayu Pass Wei and Jin Dynasty Mural Tomb" displays more than 60 brick paintings preserved in the tomb. The "Yellow River Ancient Elephant" exhibition displays the Yellow River Stegodon fossil discovered in Heshui County in the spring of 1973. It is 8 meters long and 4 meters high. It is the largest and most complete preserved Stegodon remains found in the world. The "Red Army's Long March Through Gansu" revolutionary cultural relics exhibition takes the Long March as the axis and introduces the major political events and revolutionary struggles that occurred during the Long March in Gansu through photos, documents, and objects.

The important books and magazines edited and published separately or collaborated and published by the museum include "Wuwei Han Jane", "Gansu Color Pottery", "Wuwei Han Dynasty Medicine Slimper", "Hanjian Research Collection", "Bingling Temple Grottoes", There are more than 10 kinds of books including "Relics of the Red Army's Long March Through Gansu Revolution", "Selected Calligraphy of Chunhua Pavilion", "Selected Calligraphy of Han Bamboo Slips", etc.