, there are 3,589 museums in

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, including 3,054 state-owned museums (museums run by national and local government or universities) and 535 private museums. With a total 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

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s, 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. The museums are classified into several grades, with the national first-grade museums being the highest classification.

List

Below is a list of museums in

grouped by the provinces or municipalities where they are located.

Anhui

*Anhui Provincial Museum *Anhui Hall of Fame *Anhui Paleontology Fossil Museum *Bengbu Museum *China Huizhou Tax Museum *Ma'anshan Museum *She County Museum

Beijing

*Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum *Beijing Folk Arts Museum *

Beijing Liao and Jin City Wall Museum The Beijing Liao and Jin Dynasty City Wall Museum (Chinese: 北京辽金城垣博物馆) is a museum built over the ruins of Beijing's Liao and Jin dynasty (1115–1234) city wall. The museum is located at No.41 Yulinli, Yulin South Road, in Fengt ...

*Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art *

Beijing Museum of Natural History The Beijing Museum of Natural History (BMNH; ) is located at 126 Tian Qiao Nan Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100050, and is the most popular natural history museum in China.Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall * Capital Museum *

China Agricultural Museum China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

China Civil Aviation Museum China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones ...

China Museum of Telecommunications China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...

* China National Film Museum *China National Post and Postage Stamp Museum * China Numismatic Museum *

China Printing Museum The China Printing Museum () is a museum dedicated to printing in Beijing, China.Established in 1996, the China Printing Plate Museum is the largest museum on printing in the world. The China Printing Museum displays the invention and evolution o ...

China Railway Museum The China Railway Museum () is a Chinese museum preserving locomotives that have operated on the railways of the People's Republic of China. The museum offers a total exhibition space of 16500m² and 8 exhibition tracks. The museum is located ...

China Science and Technology Museum The China Science and Technology Museum (), established in 1988 in Beijing, China, is "the only comprehensive museum of science and technology at national level in China" according to the official website of the Beijing government. Museum histor ...

Dabaotai Western Han Dynasty Mausoleum The Beijing Dabaotai Western Han Dynasty Mausoleum ( Chinese: 北京大葆台西汉墓博物馆) is a museum built over the tombs of Western Han dynasty prince Liu Jian and his wife at Dabaotai in Fengtai District of southwestern Beijing Municip ...

Digital Beijing Building The Digital Beijing Building () is located northwest of the intersection of Beichen West and Anxiang North roads, on Olympic Green, in the Chaoyang District, Beijing, Chaoyang District of Beijing, China. It is a block-shaped building erected t ...

Geological Museum of China The Geological Museum of China (), built in 1916, is a geological museum, boasting 200 thousand specimens. This museum is located in the Xisi area of Beijing and opened on October 1, 1959. It is the earliest geological scientific museum of Chi ...

Guanfu Museum Guanfu Museum () is an art museum in Beijing, China. It was founded by Ma Weidu on 30 October 1996, and it was among the first private museums in the People's Republic of China. The Guanfu Museum is a non-profit organization and it has a qualificat ...

(private) *

International Friendship Museum International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The T ...

* Lu Xun Museum * Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution *

Ming City Wall Relics Park The Beijing Ming City Wall Ruins Park () is a park in Beijing with the longest and best preserved section of the city's Ming Dynasty city wall. The park is located from the city center and extends east from Chongwenmen to Dongbianmen and then n ...

* Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression * National Art Museum of China * National Museum of China *

Palace Museum The Palace Museum () is a huge national museum complex housed in the Forbidden City at the core of Beijing, China. With , the museum inherited the imperial royal palaces from the Ming and Qing dynasties of China and opened to the public in 192 ...

(Forbidden City) *

Paleozoological Museum of China The Paleozoological Museum of China (PMC; ) is a museum in Beijing, China. The same building also houses the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The museum contains exhibition halls with s ...

Shangyuan Art Museum Shangyuan Art Museum is a modern art museum in Beijing, China. A private museum, it was established in 2007. It hosts an International Residency Programme, with participants coming from all around the world. See also * List of museums in China ...

* Western Zhou Yan State Capital Museum *

Madame Tussauds Beijing Madame Tussauds Beijing (北京杜莎夫人蜡像馆) is the Beijing branch of Madame Tussauds wax museum. It is situated at No. 18, Pedestrian Street, Qianmen Avenue, an entertainment district in Beijing. Opened in , it is the third Madame Tussau ...

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

Baiheliang Underwater Museum The Baiheliang Underwater Museum or White Crane Ridge Underwater Museum () is an underwater museum built around the White Crane Ridge of Fuling District , Chongqing. It is China's first underwater museum. The museum is located on the Yangtze ...

Chongqing Art Museum Chongqing Art Museum () (also known as Chongqing Art Gallery or Chongqing Guotai Arts Center) is an art museum in Yuzhong District of Chongqing. Its main focus is on traditional Chinese painting, printmaking, and small sculptures. Architecture ...

Chongqing Museum of Natural History The Chongqing Natural History Museum () is a natural history museum in Chongqing, China. The museum founded in 1944, originally as the Western Museum of China. It changed its name in 1981. The museum has a collection of about 70,000 specimens c ...

* Chongqing Science and Technology Museum *

Chongqing Sichuan Opera Museum Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a municipality in Southwest China. The official abbreviation of the city, "" (), was approved by the State Coun ...

* General Joseph W. Stilwell Museum *

Red Rock Village Museum Red Rock Village Museum or Hongyancun Museum () is a museum in Yuzhong District, Chongqing, China. It was a diplomatic site for the Chinese Communist Party, led by Zhou Enlai during World War II. The museum is the site where Mao Zedong signed th ...

Three Gorges Museum The Three Gorges Museum () is a museum in the Yuzhong District of Chongqing, about the Three Gorges and Chongqing. It is one of the largest museums in the country. The museum opened in 2005, replacing the former Chongqing Museum. It is loc ...

Madame Tussauds Chongqing Madame may refer to: * Madam, civility title or form of address for women, derived from the French * Madam (prostitution), a term for a woman who is engaged in the business of procuring prostitutes, usually the manager of a brothel * ''Madame'' ( ...

Fujian

Fujian Museum Fujian Museum () is the provincial museum of Fujian province in China established in 1933. It is located in the city capital of Fuzhou at No. 96, Hutou Jie next to the West Lake Park. The museum was completed in October 2002, covering an area of 6 ...

Fuzhou Fuzhou (; , Fuzhounese: Hokchew, ''Hók-ciŭ''), alternately romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute t ...

(private), Xiamen * Jinjiang Museum, Jinjiang *

Quanzhou Museum Quanzhou, alternatively known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, China. It is Fujian's largest metropolitan region, with an area of and a popula ...

Quanzhou Maritime Museum The Quanzhou Maritime Museum () in the Fengze District of Quanzhou, Fujian, is the only museum in China specialising in overseas relations. Established in 1959, through its comprehensive and valuable display of historical relics relating to overs ...

, which houses the

Quanzhou ship The Quanzhou Ship (), or Quanzhou wreck, was a 13th-century Chinese seagoing sailing junk – rounds the length and beam width to 34 and 9.8 m, respectively (also abstract on pp. 62–63, 240-242) that sank near the city of Quanzhou in Fujian Pr ...

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

Dunhuang County Museum Dunhuang Museum is a museum in Dunhuang, Gansu, China. It contains a number of Chinese and Tibetan items such as manuscripts from Cave 17 of Mogao Caves The Mogao Caves, also known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes or Caves of the Thousand B ...

Gansu Provincial Museum The Gansu Provincial Museum () is a museum in Lanzhou, China. Its collections include over 350,000 artefacts, in two main sections: history and natural science. Since its foundation, the museum has held almost 300 exhibitions, and items from its c ...

(Lanzhou) *

Lanzhou Museum Lanzhou (, ; ) is the capital and largest city of Gansu Province (China), Province in Northwest China. Located on the banks of the Yellow River, it is a key regional transportation hub, connecting areas further west by rail to the eastern half ...

(Lanzhou) *

Silk Route Museum The Silk Route Museum () is located in Jiuquan, Gansu Province along the Silk Road, a trading route connecting Rome to China, used by Marco Polo. It is also built over the tomb of the Xiliang King in Gansu Province. Founded by Mei Ping Wu and sta ...

Guangdong

* Dongguan Science and Technology Museum * Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou * Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou * Guangdong Museum of Revolutionary History *

Guangdong Provincial Museum The Guangdong Museum () is a general museum of Cantonese art, nature, culture and history in Guangzhou. History Old building The Guangdong Provincial Museum was located on 215 Wenming Rd. (), in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, on which was the o ...

, Guangzhou * Longgang Museum of Hakka Culture, Longgang * Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King, Guangzhou * Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen *

Wangye Museum Wang Ye worship () is a Fujianese and Taiwanese folk religion, frequently considered an aspect of the Taoist belief system. Wang Ye is particularly worshipped in Southern Taiwan and also among Minnan speaking communities worldwide. The customa ...

, Shenzhen

Guangxi Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...

Guangxi Museum Guangxi (; ; alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam ( ...

* Anthropology Museum Of Guangxi *

Liuzhou Museum Liuzhou (; , IPA Pronunciation:) is a prefecture-level city in north-central Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The prefecture's population was 3,758,700 in 2010, including 1,436,599 in the built-up area made of 4 urban ...

Museum of Guihai Tablets Forest A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

Guizhou

Hainan

Hainan Provincial Museum The Hainan Museum () is on Guoxing Avenue, Haikou, the capital city of Hainan Province, China. It was established in 1984, then moved to its permanent location in the Hainan Cultural Park at 68 Guoxing Avenue. There, it was officially reopened on N ...

Hebei

Hebei Provincial Museum The Hebei Museum () is located in Shijiazhuang, the capital city of Hebei Province, China. It first opened in April 1953 in Baoding. After moving twice in the 1980s, it reopened in October 1987 at its present location on South Zhongshan Street. ...

Heilongjiang

* Heilongjiang Provincial Museum

Henan

Henan Museum The Henan Museum (), located in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China, is a history and archaeology museum. It has a collection of more than 130,000 pieces of cultural relics through the ages. In addition to its collection of human history the museum ...

Zhengzhou Zhengzhou (; ), also spelt Zheng Zhou and alternatively romanized as Chengchow, is the capital and largest city of Henan Province in the central part of the People's Republic of China. Located in north-central Henan, it is one of the National ...

Luoyang Museum Luoyang Museum () is a historical museum in Luoyang, Henan Province, China. Situated in the Yellow River valley. It offers exhibits of the rich cultural heritage of Luoyang, a major Chinese cultural centre, which was the capital of numerous Ch ...

, Luoyang *

Guo State Museum "Guo", written in Chinese: 郭, is one of the most common Chinese surnames and means "the wall that surrounds a city" in Chinese. It can also be transliterated into English as Cok, Gou, Quo, Quach, Quek, Que, Keh, Kuo, Kwo, Kuoch, Kok, Koc, ...

, Sanmenxia

Hong Kong SAR

Hubei

* Hubei Provincial Museum *

Wuhan Museum Wuhan Museum is a museum in Wuhan, Hubei, China. Construction began in 1984 and it was opened in 1986. In 2001, a new building was completed and opened to the public. It has a total built-up area of . The display area is up to . The museum was nam ...

Underground Project 131 Underground Project 131 () is a system of tunnels in Hubei province constructed in the late 1960s and the early 1970s to accommodate the Chinese People's Liberation Army command headquarters in case of a nuclear war. The facility was never full ...

, in Xianning Prefecture *Yifu Museum of China University of Geosciences *

Madame Tussauds Wuhan Madame may refer to: * Madam, civility title or form of address for women, derived from the French * Madam (prostitution), a term for a woman who is engaged in the business of procuring prostitutes, usually the manager of a brothel * ''Madame'' ( ...

Hunan

Hunan Provincial Museum The Hunan Museum () is the provincial museum of Hunan, China. It was built in 1951 and opened to the public in July 1956. It is located in the provincial capital Changsha at No. 50, Dongfeng Lu next to the Revolutionary Martyr's Park. It spans a ...

, Changsha *

Changsha Museum The Changsha Museum () is a history museum located at Beichen Delta in Kaifu District, Changsha, Hunan, China. It is adjacent to the Changsha Concert Hall, Changsha Planning Exhibition Hall and Changsha Library. It has a constructed area of . ...

, Changsha *

Changsha Bamboo Slips Museum The Changsha Jiandu Museum () is a history museum located at No. 92 of Baisha Road in Tianxin District, Changsha, Hunan, China. It is adjacent to Baisha Well in the south and Tianxin Pavilion in the west. Changsha Jiandu Museum is currently a lar ...

, Changsha *

Qin Dynasty Bamboo Slips Museum of Liye The Liye Qin Slips Museum () is a museum of bamboo and wooden slips of the Qin dynasty unearthed in 2002. It is located in the northeast of seat of Liye Town, Longshan County, Hunan Province, China.湖南里耶秦简博物馆开馆sohu.com (29-Oct ...

, Longshan County

Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia Museum The Inner Mongolia Museum () is a regional museum in the city of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia, in north China. History and location In 2007, a newer and 10 times bigger modern museum was constructed about 5 kilometers to the east, located at the int ...

Hohhot Hohhot,; abbreviated zh, c=呼市, p=Hūshì, labels=no formerly known as Kweisui, is the capital of Inner Mongolia in the north of the People's Republic of China, serving as the region's administrative, economic and cultural center.''The Ne ...

Hohhot City Museum The Residence of Gurun Princess Kejing () is a Qing dynasty courtyard house in Inner Mongolia, China. It currently houses the Hohhot Municipal Museum (). It is listed as a Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level. Histo ...

Jiangsu

Nanjing

* China Modern History Museum, Nanjing * Nanjing Museum *

Nanjing Municipal Museum Nanjing Municipal Museum (), the city museum of Nanjing, is a comprehensive museum of history and art, located inside Chaotian Palace. The museum was formally established in 1978 and is a key historical and cultural site. With rich and exquisite ...

Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall The Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders is a museum to memorialize those that were killed in the Nanjing Massacre by the Imperial Japanese Army in and around the then-capital of China, Nanjing, after it fell on ...

, Nanjing *

Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum The Taiping Kingdom History Museum () is a museum dedicated to artifacts from the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864). It is located on the grounds of the Zhan Yuan Garden, a historical garden in Nanjing, China. History The garden that surrounds the m ...

, Nanjing

Suzhou Suzhou (; ; Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'' , Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. Suzhou is the largest city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trade ...

* Suzhou Museum * Suzhou Arts and Crafts Museum *

Changzhou Museum The Changzhou Museum () is a comprehensive museum in the city of Changzhou, in southern Jiangsu province of China. Established in 1958, it exhibits a large collection of artifacts, and has a research department. There are eight sections and more ...

Suzhou Suzhou (; ; Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'' , Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. Suzhou is the largest city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trade ...

* Zhenjiang Museum,

Yangzhou Museum Yangzhou Museum () is the biggest museum in Yangzhou, an ancient city in Jiangsu Province of China. It is located in front of the Mingyue Lake ("Bright Moon Lake") on Yangzhou' West Wenchang Road, about 4 km west of downtown Yangzhou and Sl ...

and China Block Printing Museum (the two are locally known as the "double museum", as they share the lobby section),

Xuzhou

Xuzhou Museum Xuzhou Museum is a comprehensive museum of historical Chinese art in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China, which was founded in 1959. Originally the site of one of the Qianlong Emperor's Palaces at the northern foot of Yunlong Mountain, the Xuzhou Museum was ...

Xuzhou Decree Museum Xuzhou (徐州), also known as Pengcheng (彭城) in ancient times, is a major city in northwestern Jiangsu province, China. The city, with a recorded population of 9,083,790 at the 2020 census (3,135,660 of which lived in the built-up area ma ...

* Cultural Site of Han Dynasty ** Lion Hill Chu Prince Mausoleum ** Aquatic Terracotta Warrior Museum ** Museum of Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses of The Han Dynasty ** Han Dynasty Stone Relief Gallery ** Han Dynasty Cultural and Artistic Museum

Other cities

* The Museum of Guangling King's Tomb in Han Dynasty, Yangzhou * Nantong Museum, Nantong * The Old Museum of Wisteria, Changzhou *

Red Army Memorial Museum The Red Army Memorial Museum is the official Chinese historical source on the topic, and is located in Red Army Park, at Rugao, Jiangsu province in China. It is primarily a national cemetery, but it also has thousands of exhibits, a small eatery, ...

Rugao Rugao () is a county-level city under the administration of Nantong, Jiangsu province, China, located in the Yangtze River Delta on the northern (left) bank of the river. History In 411, the western part of then Hailing ( Taizhou) was separated f ...

Jiangxi

* Jiujiang British Concession Museum *

Jiujiang Museum Jiujiang (), formerly transliterated Kiukiang or Kew Keang, is a prefecture-level city located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in northwest Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. It is the second-largest prefecture-level ci ...

* Jiujiang Folk Culture Museum * Jiujiang Urban Planning Exhibition Centre *

Jiujiang Fine Arts Museum Jiujiang (), formerly transliterated Kiukiang or Kew Keang, is a prefecture-level city located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in northwest Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. It is the second-largest prefecture-level ci ...

Jiujiang Forest Museum Jiujiang (), formerly transliterated Kiukiang or Kew Keang, is a prefecture-level city located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in northwest Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. It is the second-largest prefecture-level city ...

Jilin

Museum of the Imperial Palace of the Manchu State The Museum of the Imperial Palace of Manchukuo () is a museum in the northeastern corner of Changchun, Jilin province, northeast China. The palace was the official residence created by the Imperial Japanese Army for China's last emperor Puyi to l ...

Changchun Changchun (, ; ), also romanized as Ch'angch'un, is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, People's Republic of China. Lying in the center of the Songliao Plain, Changchun is administered as a , comprising 7 districts, 1 county and 3 c ...

Jilin Provincial Museum The Jilin Provincial Museum () is a first-grade museum in Changchun, Jilin province, China, dedicated to history and art. It is a subordinate unit of the Jilin Province Department of Culture and Tourism. History The Jilin Provincial Museum was ...

* Jilin University Museum

Liaoning Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and is the northernmost ...

* Liaoning Provincial Museum *

Dalian Natural History Museum Dalian () is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China. Located on th ...

Dalian Modern Museum Dalian () is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China. Located on the ...

* Shenyang Steam Locomotive Museum

Macau

* Communications Museum * Fire Services Museum *

Grand Prix Museum The Grand Prix Museum (; pt, Museu do Grande Prémio) is a motor racing museum in Sé, Macau, China. History The museum was inaugurated at the 40th Macau Grand Prix on 18 November 1993. The museum underwent renovation for the 50th celebra ...

Macao Tea Culture House The Macao Tea Culture House (; pt, Casa Cultural de Chá de Macau) is a museum about tea in São Lázaro, Macau, China. History The museum building was originally part of Yu Garden. The museum was opened on 1 June 2005. Architecture The ...

Macau Museum of Art The Macau Museum of Art (MAM; ; pt, Museu de Arte de Macau) is an art museum in Sé, Macau, China. History The museum was established on 19 March 1999. Architecture The museum building spans over 10,192 m2 with 4,000 m2 of exhibition area. ...

* Macau Wine Museum * Maritime Museum * Museum of Macau *

Museum of Sacred Art and Crypt The Museum of Sacred Art and Crypt (; pt, Museu de Arte Sacra e Cripta) is a museum in Santo António, Macau, China. History The museum was constructed at the former site of the College of the Mother of God and Church of Saint Paul. It was in ...

Museum of Taipa and Coloane History The Museum of Taipa and Coloane History (; pt, Museu da História da Taipa e Coloane) is a museum in Taipa, Macau, China. History The museum building used to be a public administration building named Island Municipal Council Building. It use ...

Natural and Agrarian Museum The Natural and Agrarian Museum (; pt, Museu Natural e Agrário) is a public museum in Seac Pai Van Park, Coloane, Macau, China. History The museum was established on 21 March 1997. Architecture The museum is housed in a wooden-style littl ...

* Sun Yat Sen Memorial House *

Taipa Houses-Museum Taipa ( zh, t=氹仔, ; pt, Taipa, ) was a former island in Macau, presently united with the island of Coloane by reclaimed land known as Cotai. Administratively, the boundaries of the traditional civil parish Freguesia de Nossa Senhora do C ...

Ningxia

Ningxia Museum The Ningxia Museum () is a museum in Jinfeng District, Yinchuan, Ningxia Ningxia (,; , ; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in the northwest of the People's Rep ...

Qinghai

Liuwan Museum of Ancient Painted Pottery The Liuwan Museum of Ancient Painted Pottery () is a ceramics museum located in Ledu District, Qinghai Province, China. The museum opened in 2004 and has a collection of 37,925 objects, many of which are from the Neolithic period from Liwan tombs. I ...

, Ledu

Shaanxi

* Shaanxi History Museum, Xi'an * Xi'an Stele Forest Museum (Beilin), Xi'an * Terracotta Army, Xi'an *

Xi'an Banpo Museum The Banpo Museum () is a museum in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. The museum houses artifacts from the archaeological site of Banpo. The museum gives access to the excavated buildings, has a collection of artifacts from the site, and also has several re ...

, Xi'an * Maoling Museum, Xianyang *

Xi'an Museum Xi'an Museum () is a museum on Youyi West Road, Beilin District, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China. Xi'an Museum had its official opening on 18 May 2007, "National Museum Day", with a total investment of 220 million RMB and a total area of 160,000 sq ...

(within grounds of

Jianfu Temple Jianfu Temple () is a Chinese Buddhist temple located at West Youyi Rd. outside the south gate of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China. It hosts the famous Small Wild Goose Pagoda. History Jianfu Temple was originally the residence of Emperor Zhongzon ...

), Xi'an *

Xianyang Museum Xianyang () is a prefecture-level city in central Shaanxi province, situated on the Wei River a few kilometers upstream (west) from the provincial capital of Xi'an. Once the capital of the Qin dynasty, it is now integrated into the Xi'an metro ...

, Xianyang *

Baoji Bronzeware Museum The Baoji Bronzeware Museum () is an archaeology museum in Baoji, Shaanxi, China. It has a collection of more than 120,000 pieces of cultural relics through the ages, most of them are Zhou dynasty The Zhou dynasty ( ; Old Chinese ( B&S): * ...

, Baoji

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

Shandong Art Museum The Shandong Art Museum ( zh, 山东省美术馆) is an art museum in the Lixia District of Jinan, China. First established in 1977, the museum relocated in a large building in 2013, near the Shandong Provincial Museum. It hosts a permanent coll ...

Shandong Provincial Museum The Shandong Museum () is the principal museum of Shandong Province. It is located in the City of Jinan, Shandong, China. It is one of the largest museums in the country. The Shandong Museum occupies a building with 82,900 square meters of space ...

* Shandong Science & Technology Museum * Jinan Museum * Qingdao Municipal Museum

Shanghai

* Aurora Art MuseumAurora Museum
/ref> * China Art Museum * China Maritime Museum * C. Y. Tung Maritime Museum * Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai * Power Station of Art * Rockbund Art Museum * Shanghai Entomological Museum *

Shanghai Film Museum The Shanghai Film Museum () is a museum in Shanghai, China, located at 595 North Caoxi Road in Xuhui District Xuhui District is a core urban district of Shanghai. It has a land area of and a population of 982,200 as of 2008. The Xuhui Distr ...

* Shanghai History Museum * Shanghai International Wine & Spirits Museum *

Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum is a museum commemorating the Jewish refugees who lived in Shanghai during World War II after fleeing Europe to escape the Holocaust. It is located at the former Ohel Moshe or Moishe Synagogue, in the Tilanqiao ...

* Shanghai Mazu Cultural Palace *

Shanghai Museum The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art, situated on the People's Square in the Huangpu District, Shanghai, Huangpu District of Shanghai, China. Rebuilt at its current location in 1996, it is considered one of China's first world-c ...

* Shanghai Museum of Public Security *

Shanghai Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...

Shanghai Natural History Museum The Shanghai Natural History Museum (; Shanghainese: Zånhae Zyzoe Pohvehguoe) is a museum dedicated to natural history in the city of Shanghai. It is one of the largest museums of natural sciences in China. Formerly housed in the Shanghai Cotto ...

* Shanghai Science and Technology Museum * Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center * Shanghai Water Displaying Hall *

Long Museum The Long Museum () is a private art museum in Shanghai, China, founded by Liu Yiqian and his wife Wang Wei. The museum has two locations in Shanghai: the Long Museum Pudong and Long Museum West Bund.Long Museum websiteAbout Long Museum/ref> In 2 ...

* Guangfulin Relics Park *

Madame Tussauds Shanghai Madame Tussauds Shanghai (上海杜莎夫人臘像館) is a wax museum located on the 10th floor of the New World Department Store, Nanjing Xi Road, Shanghai, China. Opened May 1, 2006 it was the second Madame Tussauds museum to open in Asia after ...

Shanxi Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...

* Shanxi Provincial Museum (Taiyuan) *

Shanxi Provincial Museum of Art Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level ...

(Taiyuan) * Datong Museum (Lower Huayan Monastery of Datong) *

The Coal Museum of China ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in En ...

(Taiyuan)

Sichuan

* Zigong Dinosaur Museum, Zigong *

Zigong Salt History Museum The Zigong Salt History Museum () is a museum in Zigong, Sichuan Province, Southwest China. It is housed in the Xiqin Guildhall (), originally built in 1736-1752 by salt merchants from Shaanxi. This was during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor of ...

, Zigong * Sichuan Science and Technology Museum,

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...

Du Fu Cao Tang Du Fu Thatched Cottage () is a park and museum in honour of the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu at the western outskirts of Chengdu, adjacent to the Huanhua Xi (Flower Rinsing Creek). In 1961 the Chinese government made the cottage a National Heritage ...

(Thatched Cottage of Du Fu),

Sanxingdui Museum The Sanxingdui Museum is located in the northeast corner of the ruins of Sanxingdui, which is at the bank of Duck River in the west of Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, known as a famous historical and cultural city. It is 38 kilometers north from C ...

* Jinsha Site Museum *

China Colour Lantern Museum China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

Jianchuan Museum The Jianchuan Museum Cluster () is located in Anren Town, Dayi County, Sichuan province, China, about one hour's drive from the provincial capital Chengdu. It consists of 26 museums which showcase China's largest private collection of artifacts am ...

Tianjin

* Tianjin Museum *

Memorial to Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao The Memorial to Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao is a museum in Tianjin. The three-story museum is dedicated to the memory of premier Zhou Enlai and his wife, Deng Yingchao, and features photos, documents and dioramas of significant events in their l ...

, Tianjin *

Tianjin Natural History Museum Tianjin Natural History Natural history museum, Museum is in Tianjin, China, and is located in No. 206 Machang Avenue, in the Hexi District, Tianjin, Hexi District. It was founded in 1914 as the Hoangho Paiho Museum. The museum has three floors an ...

Tianjin Museum of Modern History Tianjin Museum of Modern History (TMM) is located at No. 314 Hebei Road, in Heping District, Tianjin, the so-called “Five Great Avenues” area (a community of Western-style villas). TMM is mainly engaged in the study of the history of interactio ...

Tibet Autonomous Region

* Tibet Museum

Xinjiang

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Museum The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Museum, or Xinjiang Museum, is located in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. Its address is 581 Xibei Road, Urumqi. The museum holds over 40,000 items of various cultural relics and specimens, including 381 nation ...

Khotan Cultural Museum Hotan Cultural Museum or Hetian Cultural Museum () is a museum in Hotan, Xinjiang, China. Founded in 1995, it has a range of silk fragments, wooden utensils and jewelry, and mummified corpses of a 10-year-old girl and a 35-year-old man with Eur ...

Turpan Museum Turpan Museum () is a museum in Turpan, Xinjiang, China. It has items from the Tang dynasty excavated from the Astana Graves which are located outside the town. Items include ancient silks, clothes and preserved corpses. See also * List of museums ...

Yunnan

Lufeng Dinosaur Museum The Lufeng Dinosaur Museum is located in Jingshan ("Golden Hill"), Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, China. Lufeng is the site of numerous Jurassic dinosaur discoveries, first found there in 1938. Most well known is Lufengosaurus, a Jurassic pro ...

Yunnan Provincial Museum Yunnan Provincial Museum () is located in Kunming, on Guangfu Road. It houses an exhibition centered on Yunnan's ethnic minorities, as well as a collection of artifacts from tomb excavations at Jinning on the southern rim of Lake Dian. The old ...

* Yunnan Nationalities Museum *

Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology The Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology (昆明动物博物馆) is located on the campus of Kunming Institute of Zoology, Jiaochang East Road, Kunming, Yunnan, China. The museum is an important project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Yunnan Railway Museum Kunming North railway station (昆明北站, ''Kūnmíng Běi Zhàn'') is an old railway station in Panlong District, Kunming, the capital of China's Yunnan Province. It was the terminal of the metre gauge Kunming–Hai Phong Railway, but now o ...

Kunming.

Zhejiang

* Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou * Zhejiang Museum of Natural History *

Hangzhou Southern Song Dynasty Guan Kiln Museum Hangzhou ( or , ; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), also romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northwestern part of the province, sitting at the head of Hangzhou Bay, whi ...

* Hangzhou World Numismatic Museum *

Liangzhu Culture Museum The Liangzhu Museum () is an archaeological museum dedicated to the Neolithic Liangzhu culture. It houses a collection of artefacts from the archaeological culture. It is located in Liangzhu, in the northwestern outskirts of Hangzhou, the capita ...

* China National Tea Museum, Hangzhou *

China National Silk Museum The China National Silk Museum () is a national-level museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. About the Museum The China National Silk Museum (CNSM), near the West Lake, in Hangzhou, is one of the first national-level museums in China and ...

, Hangzhou * Zhoushan Museum *

China Finance and Taxation Museum China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

China Shoes Museum China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city ...

, Wenzhou * China Grand Canal Museum * The National Sauce Culture Museum of China *

Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum A tradition is a belief or behavior (folk custom) passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common examples include holidays o ...

, Hangzhou * Chinese Seal Museum, Hangzhou

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Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

Guangxi Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...

Suzhou Suzhou (; ; Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'' , Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. Suzhou is the largest city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trade ...

Other cities

Liaoning Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and is the northernmost ...

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

Shanxi Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...

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