Henan Provincial Museum,Essence of the Central Plains Culture
2 min readThe Henan Museum or Henan Provincial Museum,located in Zhengzhou,Henan Province. China,is a history and art museum.It has a collection of more than 130,000 pieces of cultural relics through the ages.In addition to its collection of human history, the museum is also home to many relics of natural history including dinosaur bones and fossils. Henan Museum’s present building,which opened in 1997,occupies an area of more than 100.000 square meters,with a total floor space of 78,000 square meters.
Henan Museum is one of the oldest museums in China.In June 1927,General Feng Yuxiang. the commander in chief of the National Revolutionary Army and the chairman of Henan Province al that time,proposed that”Education is the Essential Politics for a Country”,In July.the founding committee of the Henan Museum was established.The site designated lor the museum was the former Legal and Law School,which was located at Kaifeng Court West. Street(Sansheng Temple Street,Kaifeng today).Thus,the Museum was born.
In 1961,along with the move of the provincial capital,Henan Museum moved tfrom Kaileng to Zhengzhou.In 1991 the museum was remodeled.In 1999 the official reopening to puolic was held and the name was officially declared as the”Henan Museum”.The new Museum hs focated in central Zhengzhou on the Agriculture(Nongye)Road.The main building,at the scnnter of the grounds,is in the shape of a pyramid,Behind it is a storeroom for culture relics. around it there are the electrified education building,combin service building,office building and training building.The constructed Museum sight is grandiose and precise,displaying primitive simp icity and elegance.It features the artistic style and culture of central China.
At present the museum has a collection of more than 130,000 pieces of cultural relics and treasures,of which more than 5,000 pieces are treasures of the first and second grades.Amang them,the prehistoric cultural relics,bronze vessels of Shang and Zhou Dynasties,and pottery and porcclain wares of various dynasties in Chinese history possess most distinguishing features. Inside the museum.there are basic exhibition halls,specialized exhibition halls and provisional exhibition halls.For the first batch of exhibitions,two basic displays and six specialized displays are offered.They are rich in contents,presenting a spectacular sight to visitors.
