The Hubei Provincial Museum (

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: 湖北省博物馆) is one of the best known museums in China, with a large amount of state-level historic and cultural relics. Established in 1953, the museum moved to its present location in 1960 and gained its present name in 1963. Since 1999 a number of new buildings have been added. The museum received 1,992,512 visitors in 2017. The museum is located in the

Wuchang District Wuchang forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the rig ...

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Province, not far from the west shore of Wuhan's East Lake. It has a collection of over 200,000 objects, including the

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, an ancient set of bronze bells (

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) and extensive artifacts from the

Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng The Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng () is an archaeological site in Leigudun Community (), Nanjiao Subdistrict (), Zengdu District, Suizhou (during the Spring and Autumn period called Sui County), Hubei, China, dated sometime after 433 BC. The tomb co ...

and the tombs at Baoshan. The particular importance of several of the archaeological items in the museum's collection has been recognized by the national government by including them into the short

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of Chinese cultural relics forbidden to be exhibited abroad. On the afternoon of April 27, 2018, China's

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and

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visited Hubei Provincial Museum.

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Official website of Hubei Provincial Museum

Hubei Provincial Museum at Google Cultural Institute
Museums in Wuhan Museums established in 1953 National first-grade museums of China {{PRChina-museum-stub

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