The Ningxia Museum () is a
museum
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 thes ...
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Jinfeng District
Jinfeng District () is one of three urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Northwest China. It has a total area of , and, according to the 2010 China Census, a population of 282,55 ...
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Yinchuan
Yinchuan (, ; ) is the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, and was the capital of the Tangut-led Western Xia dynasty. It has an area of and a total population of 2,859,074 according to the 2020 Chinese census, and its buil ...
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Ningxia
Ningxia (,; , ; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1 ...
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China.
History
The original museum building was prepared in 1959 and built in 1973. Construction of a new museum building started in November 2006. The museum was re-opened on 28 August 2008 and the old site was closed.
Architecture
The museum building is a three-story building with a total floor area of 30,258 m
2. It consists of eight exhibition halls.
The building was constructed resembling the Hui () character.
Exhibitions
The museum displays more than 10,000 cultural relics.
See also
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List of museums in China
References
External links
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Museums in Ningxia
1973 establishments in China
Museums established in 1973
National first-grade museums of China
Yinchuan
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