The Hainan Museum () is on

Guoxing Avenue Guoxing Avenue () is a major street in Haikou, Hainan, China. It runs in an east-west direction in the heart of the city. Its west end terminates at Longkun Road and its east end terminates at the Qiongzhou Bridge which crosses the Nandu River. Hi ...

, 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 November 15, 2008. The facility is one of three large public works projects constructed around the same time on Guoxing Avenue alongside one another. The others are Hainan Library and Hainan Centre for the Performing Arts. Since opening, it has received more than 800,000 visitors, including former leader

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and Premier

Li Keqiang Li Keqiang (born 1 July 1955) is a Chinese politician who is the outgoing premier of China. An economist by profession, Li is head of China's executive branch as well as one of the leading figures behind China's Financial and Economic Affai ...

Facility

The entire museum area covers 40,000 square metres. The first phase contains 18,000 square meters comprising the following: * 8,000-metre exhibition area * Cultural relics storage * Technical rooms * Service facilities * Small office buildings The second phase of the project is in planning. It will have an area of 7,000 square meters and will contain the "

Huaguangjiao One ''Huaguangjiao One'' () is a Chinese merchant ship, built during the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279), that sank off the coast of the Paracel Islands (Xisha Islands) in the South China Sea. The ship's name translates as "Magnificent China Re ...

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, where it will be restored and protected. It will house approximately 10,000 pieces of

porcelain Porcelain () is a ceramic material made by heating substances, generally including materials such as kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between . The strength and translucence of porcelain, relative to other types of pottery, arises mainl ...

and other cultural relics and specimens pertaining to the history of the

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, the ''maritime''

Silk Road The Silk Road () was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Spanning over 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and reli ...

, and items relating to

geopolitics Geopolitics (from Greek γῆ ''gê'' "earth, land" and πολιτική ''politikḗ'' "politics") is the study of the effects of Earth's geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations. While geopolitics usually refers to ...

. It will also contain

marine organism Marine life, sea life, or ocean life is the aquatic plant, plants, aquatic animal, animals and other organisms that live in the seawater, salt water of seas or oceans, or the brackish water of coastal estuary, estuaries. At a fundamental leve ...

s and examples of mineral resources.

Collections

Presently, the museum has over 20,000 items including cultural relics and multimedia.

Exhibitions

Permanent

There are four basic permanent exhibitions: * Collected Cultural Relics * History of Hainan * Minority Nationalities in Hainan * Intangible Cultural Heritage in Hainan

Thematic

The museum has presented approximately 20 thematic exhibitions, including: * Two Decades’ Development (exhibition on Hainan's Achievements in Building the Province and the Special Economic Zone in the Past Two Decades) * Charm of Masters in Literature of the 20th Century * Exhibition of Masterpieces of Asian Museum of Watercolor Art * National Treasure Exhibition * Exhibition of High and New Tech of Chinese Academy of Sciences and

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Visitor information

Hainan Museum is open from 09:00 to 17:00. It is closed on Mondays. Entrance is free with a maximum of 3,000 tickets issued daily, until 16:30. Identification is required to obtain a ticket. Professional narrators and self-service audio guides are available in Chinese, English, Japanese, Russian and other languages.

Partner museums

Hainan Museum is partnered with: * National Museum of China *

Shanxi Museum The Shanxi Museum () is the largest museum and cultural building in the province of Shanxi, China. The museum, located in Shanxi's provincial capital Taiyuan, is home to about 400,000 cultural relics and 110,000 old books. Since March 2008, admis ...

* Shandong Museum * Nanjing Museum *

Hunan 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 ...

References

External links

Official website

Images of objects on display
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