: Basic information
1. Tickets: Gansu Museum needs tickets, but they are free. You can get it by registering with a valid ID card.
2. Opening hours: every Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00- 17:00 (library entrance 16:00 closed); It is closed on Mondays (except national holidays). Tourists 1200 in the morning and 800 in the afternoon. Take personal valid documents to the invoice office to collect tickets for the visit; Group audience must make an appointment in advance.
3. Location: Gansu Provincial Museum is located at No.3 Xijin West Road, Qilihe District, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province. It is a large comprehensive museum in Gansu Province. Built in 1956, with a building area of 2 1000 square meters and an exhibition area of 13000 square meters.
4. Public transportation: You can take 1, 18, 3 1, 50, 53, 58, 59, 7 1, 76, 77, 103 and/kloc-0 in the city.
The museum has three floors. It is divided into several permanent exhibition halls with the themes of Silk Road Civilization Exhibition, Gansu Buddhist Art Exhibition, Gansu Painted Pottery Exhibition, Paleontology Exhibition and Red Gansu. Among them, the Silk Road, Buddhism and painted pottery are the three most wonderful themes, and you can visit them according to your own interests. There is also a temporary exhibition hall on the first floor, which often holds temporary exhibitions of cultural relics and artworks. There are many exhibits in the museum. It usually takes nearly half a day to browse the flowers.
The Silk Road Civilization Booth is located on the second floor and is the core exhibition of Gansu Provincial Museum. The most famous bronze statue of galloping horse is on display here. The shape of this bronze statue is now a symbol of tourism in China. The bronze statue can stand on the ground with only one foot, which shows the superb skills of ancient casting. Swallows and galloping horses are also treasures of the whole museum. The famous postal map brick is also here, and the postal map painted on it is now the symbol of China postal industry. In addition to these two national treasures, there are many precious cultural relics on the ancient Silk Road in the museum, including the artifacts of the Central Plains culture, the treasures left by the western regions and even European civilizations that arrived here through the Silk Road in ancient times, and the unique culture left by China's ancient Islam. In some areas, the lifestyle and customs of the ancient western regions have been restored through the sand table, which is very ethnic and eye-opening.
Gansu Buddhist Art Exhibition is located on the third floor and is also a key exhibition in the museum. There are grottoes imitating Mogao Grottoes and Maijishan Grottoes, and there are huge white pagodas and prayer wheels of Tibetan Buddhism. Walking into the exhibition hall is like being in a magnificent temple. The Buddha statues and musical instruments displayed in the museum are also very exquisite, including historical relics of Han Buddhism and precious religious relics of Tibetan Buddhism. This kind of integration can only be seen in Gansu, where the Sino-Tibetan integration is very distinctive.
Gansu painted pottery exhibition is also on the third floor. As soon as I entered the exhibition hall, I felt that I was in an ancient tribe. Ancient thatched cottages and working tribal people have been copied. The portraits in the exhibition hall are very realistic, giving people the illusion that they are all real people at close range. The museum exhibited many ceramics dating back to four or five thousand years, such as Majiayao culture, Qijia culture and Yangshao culture. Although it was thousands of years ago, the pottery at that time was already very beautiful, with all kinds of beautiful patterns and unique shapes, so you can visit them one by one.
The theme exhibition of paleontology is divided into two exhibition halls. On the second floor is a fossil exhibition, which shows fossils of ancient creatures such as dinosaurs. The most famous ancient elephant fossil is the Yellow River, which is the largest ancient elephant fossil found in China. On the third floor is a model exhibition of ancient elephants and dinosaurs. Walking into the exhibition hall is like being in the dinosaur world, and children will like it better. The Red Gansu Theme Pavilion, located on the second floor, displays the revolutionary cultural relics in Zone A of Nanliang Base.
Please make an appointment by phone in advance. Depending on the number of people and language, the price is around 100-300 yuan. You can also connect to the wireless network in the museum through your mobile phone, and listen to the voice explanation by scanning the QR code of the cultural relics. In addition, there are free wheelchair borrowing and luggage storage services in the museum.