The Shaanxi History Museum, located on Yan Ta Road in Xi’an, is in a 60,000 sq meter building. This newly built modern building is modeled after Tang dynasty architecture and is home to many great historial art pieces. Exhibited in the main exhibition hall are 2,700 works of art, with a 2,300 meter long exhibition line.  

The Museum’s permanent exhibition primarily displays representative pieces from all periods in Shaanxi history showing its development of civilization. The display is divided into seven parts of Shaanxi from 150,000 years ago to 1840 AD; Pre-history, Zhou, Qin, Han, Wei-Jin-North and South dynasties, Sui-Tang, and Song-Yuan-Ming-Qing.  

Since several historical periods all based their capitals in Shaanxi territory, such as Zhou, Qin, Western Han, Sui and Tang, the exhibits emphasize these periods.  

The temporary exhibition hall, on the east side, has had a variety of exhibitions including Tang dynasty tomb murals. They are superb works of art all intricately drawn to display scenes.  

The 2,600 sq meters special exhibition hall is located to the west has a Shaanxi bronze exhibit (260 items on display) and an exhibit of Shaanxi-through-the-dynasties terracotta masterpieces (341 objects).

There are a total of over 115,000 objects on display at the Shaanxi History Museum. Since Shaanxi area was a crucial in China’s history, you can learn a lot about ancient China from visition this museum.