The Liuwan Museum of Ancient Painted Pottery () is a

ceramics museum A ceramics museum is a museum wholly or largely devoted to ceramics, usually ceramic art. Its collections may also include glass and enamel, but typically concentrate on pottery, including porcelain. Most national collections are in a more gener ...

located in

Ledu District Ledu District () is a district of the city of Haidong, Qinghai province, China. Nearby are Ping'an District and the city of Xining. Ledu used to be named Nianbo county before 1929. The county dates back to 1724. On 8 February 2013 Ledu was upgrade ...

Qinghai Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...

Province, China. The museum opened in 2004 and has a collection of 37,925 objects, many of which are from the

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several p ...

period from Liwan tombs. It is the largest painted

pottery Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and ...

museum in China.Largest Painted Pottery Museum Opens in Qinghai Province
Xinhua News Agency, 29 April 2004.

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Art museums established in 2004 Archaeological museums in China Ceramics museums in China Museums in Qinghai Decorative arts museums in China 2004 establishments in China {{PRChina-museum-stub

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