Gansu Provincial Museum
1 min readThe Gansu Provincial Museum was built in 1959，encompassing 21 000 square metres，with an exhibition space of 13 000 square metres.The mu-seum is in the shape of Chinese character“i山”meaning“mountain”.
The museum has 5 floors in the middle，three floors on both sides.In the muse-um exhibit historical relics，the Wei（220-265）and Jin（264-240）murals，the chart of the Silk Road，and other revolutionary cultural relics.The muse-um boosts nearly 100 000 relics and specimens.A bronze horse poised as if flying，and one of his hooves rests lightly on a swallow with wings ou-stretched，suggesting in a beautiful and imaginative way the almost divine power which the Chinese at this time believed the horse to possess from an Eastern Han Dynasty（AD 25-220）tomb discovered in Gansu in 1969 has been selected as a graph symbol of China’s tourism.
