Gansu Provincial Museum

Located directly across the street from the Friendship Hotel on western Xijin Road in Lanzhou's Qilihe District, the Provincial Museum was built after the founding of the People's Republic.

The museum covers more than 6.6 Hect-ares of land and has a total floor space of 18,000 square meters. Built in Russian architectural style, the museum is shaped like the letter "E." It's main buildings are linked to each other by corridors.

The Gansu Provincial Museum is among the best of China's provincial museums. It has more than 100,000 historical and cuttural relics as plant, animal and mineral specimens in its collection. Among its more than 75,000 historical and cultural relics the most notable are painted pottery, cultural relics dating from the Han and Tang dynasties found along the Silk Road, and objects of Buddhist art.

Gansu Provincial Museum

Gansu Provincial Museum