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Gansu Provincial Museum

Gansu Provincial Museum
甘肃省博物馆
New Exhibition Building of the Gansu Provincial Museum.jpg
The newly refurbished exhibition building
Gansu Provincial Museum is located in China
Gansu Provincial Museum
Location within China
Former name Gansu Science and Education Museum
Established 1939
Location Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China
Coordinates 36°03′40″N 103°50′03″E / 36.06109°N 103.83430°E / 36.06109; 103.83430
Key holdings Flying Horse of Gansu
Collections Silk Road, Neolithic, Natural Science
Collection size 355,364
Director E. Jun
Website www.gansumuseum.com
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The Gansu Provincial Museum (Chinese: 甘肃省博物馆; pinyin: Gānsù Shěng Bówùguăn) 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 collections have been exhibited worldwide. The museum was originally only for the history of Gansu itself, but was re-purposed in 1956 to be a natural history museum, after three years of renovations.

A major holding of the museum is the Flying Horse of Gansu, a bronze sculpture from Eastern Han dynasty, around the 2nd century AD. Apart from this, the museum has permanent exhibitions on:



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