ShaanXi History Museum
Shaanxi History Museum is a comprehensive museum, which has 375,600 cultural relics, large quantities, full categories, high grade, in excellent order. These all provide precious materials for scientific research systematically and completely. All these relics are mainly excavations, secondly works handed from ancient times, and can be divided into stoneware, bone ware, bronze ware, pottery warrior, pottery ware, Tang tri-colored pottery, jade article, copper mirror, brick tile, other building material, gold & silver ware, mural painting, royal seal, calligraphy & painting, paper money and others. Among them, first class are 762 articles, second class are2,242 articles, third class are 4,205 articles. Time span of historical relics is over 1,000,000 years, from Lantian Apeman of 1,000,000 years ago to the Opium War of 1840. There are also large quantities of modern relics, folk relics. These all reflected lives of different ages and people of different classes from the degrees of culture, art, science and so on, and are the significant base for research of ancient history, art development, scientific development of China.
Exhibition Room 1
  The relics of Shaanxi History Museum are best characterized and representative in Shang & Zhou bronze wares, pottery warriors of past dynasties, Tang gold & silver wares, mural paintings in Tang tombs, which reflected the prosperity and development of Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang dynasties and are well-known all over the world.
The total area of the Monograph Exhibition Hall, which is situated to the west of the Main Exhibition Hall, is about 2,500 square metres. It was used to show the monograph exhibitions. The exhibitions that have been held here include ‘The Exhibition of the Shaanxi Bronze Treasures’ and ‘Exhibition of the pottery Selects of Shaanxi province in the past Dynasties’, etc. At present ‘Exhibition of the Rare Gems of the New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi’ is being exhibited. This hall presents visitors with the new advances in research into cultural relics and archaeological excavations in Shaanxi Province.
  The Museum is preparing to build the ‘Tang Tomb Frescoes Exhibition Centre’, with unique features embodying the protection, display and scientific research of the Tang Tomb Frescoes and showing a historical picture of Tang society.
Exhibition Room 2
The relics in this exhibition room are the brief summery of the civilization development of the Western Han dynasty and the Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern dynasties in the Shaanxi province. The magnificent city site of the capital Changan, the papermaking technology and confrontation of the Northern and Southern powers are all presented here.
Exhibition Room 3
This exhibition room are divided into two parts: The Sui and Tang dynasties; The Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing dynasties. The magnificent capital city Changan, The brilliant gold and silver wares of the Tang dynasty, the gorgeous pottery figures of the Tang dynasty and the pottery figures and porcelains of the Song, Yuan, Ming dynasties all revealed the important role of the Shaanxi province in the development of the ancient Chinese history.
Subject Exhibition
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  The total area of the Monograph Exhibition Hall, which is situated to the west of the Main Exhibition Hall, is about 2,500 square metres. It was used to show the monograph exhibitions. The exhibitions that have been held here include ‘The Exhibition of the Shaanxi Bronze Treasures’ and ‘Exhibition of the pottery Selects of Shaanxi province in the past Dynasties’, etc. At present ‘Exhibition of the Rare Gems of the New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi’ is being exhibited. This hall presents visitors with the new advances in research into cultural relics and archaeological excavations in Shaanxi Province. The Museum is preparing to build the ‘Tang Tomb Frescoes Exhibition Centre’, with unique features embodying the protection, display and scientific research of the Tang Tomb Frescoes and showing a historical picture of Tang society. Â
 
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East Exhibition
The total area of the Monograph Exhibition Hall, which is situated to the west of the Main Exhibition Hall, is about 2,500 square metres. It was used to show the monograph exhibitions. The exhibitions that have been held here include ‘The Exhibition of the Shaanxi Bronze Treasures’ and ‘Exhibition of the pottery Selects of Shaanxi province in the past Dynasties’, etc. At present ‘Exhibition of the Rare Gems of the New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi’ is being exhibited. This hall presents visitors with the new advances in research into cultural relics and archaeological excavations in Shaanxi Province. The Museum is preparing to build the ‘Tang Tomb Frescoes Exhibition Centre’, with unique features embodying the protection, display and scientific research of the Tang Tomb Frescoes and showing a historical picture of Tang society.Â
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