Hunan Museum

The Hunan Museum is the provincial museum of Hunan, China.
It was built in 1951 and to the public in July 1956.
It is located in the provincial capital Changsha.

Collection

The Hunan Provincial Museum currently has a collection of more than 180,000 cultural relics, especially the cultural relics unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb, Shang and Zhou bronzes, Chu cultural relics, past dynasties ceramics,

Calligraphy and painting and modern cultural relics. In order to fully display these treasures of cultural relics in this art palace, Hunan Bo people scientifically excavated the connotation of cultural relics, and made use of modern display art to carefully create "Changsha Mawangdui Han Tomb Display" and "Hunan People - History of Sanxiang".

As the largest history and art museum in Hunan province, the Hunan Museum covers an area of 49,000㎡, with the building area reaching 91,000㎡. It is one of the first batch of national first-level museums and one of the first eight national museums co-funded by central and local governments.

For several decades, the museum as a cultural landmark in Changsha city, has attracted millions of visitors. It not only presents the Chinese civilization along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River but also serves as a unique window for people to understand the development of the civilization in Hunan province as well as to appreciate the mysteries of Hunan culture.

With a history over half a century, the Hunan Museum has made remarkable achievements in exhibitions, social education, public services, development and innovation of cultural and creative products, operations and management. It has become one of the most influential museums in China and one of the most advanced museums in the international arena.