Shaanxi Provincial History Museum, a massive modern museum up to the national standard, is located one kilometers northwest of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. It is a magnificent architectural complex in the Tang Dynasty style. It covers an area of 70,000 square meters, with the construction area of 5,000 square meters. It collects the highlights of the Shaanxi culture and shows a development of the Chinese civilization.

The architecture of the Museum is simple, unsophisticated, elegant and unique in style. It combines the construction of the ancient Chinese palaces and courtyard buildings, harmonious and graceful in hue, and demonstrates the Chinese traditional architectural style. It also has local characteristics and epoch-making essence. 

The main complex is a mixture of ancient palaces and courtyard buildings, harmonious and graceful in hue, in simple and elegant style. The exhibits on the ground and first floors are arranged in roughly three parts: Basic Exhibiton Hall, the Theme Exhibiton Hall and East Exhibiton Hall. Among the chronological dynastic exhibits including the Han, Wei, Jin, North and South, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the pre-historical and bronze show together with terra cotta figures and murals from tombs of Tang dynasty are highly recommended.

Basic Exhibition Hall
Focuses on the pre-history times of Shaanxi and cultural relics and remains in the dynasties of the Zhou, the Qin, the Han and the Tang, the hall includes the Preface Hall, Shaanxi local history exhibition hall and the central hall. The exhibition is divided into seven parts of the stone age, the dynasties of the Zhou, the Qin, the Han, the Wei, the Jin, the South and North dynasty, the Sui, the Tang, the Song, the Yuan, the Ming and the Qing.

East Exhibition Hall
Mainly holding temporary exhibitions at home and abroad, the hall has held several exhibitions include "the Zhaoling Mausoleums Fine Cultural Relics Exhibition", "the Tang dynastys Tomb Real Murals Exhibition", "Grand Exhibition on Gold and Silver Vessels in the Tang dynasty", "Exhibition on Costumes of Women in the Tang dynasty", "Exhibition on Cultural Relics of Empress Wu Zetian and Women in the Tang dynasty" etc.

Theme Exhibition Hall
The hall has 2,500 square meters and it is mainly for holding various types of theme exhibitions with Shaanxi local cultural characteristics. Many exhibitions such as " Shaanxi Fine Bronze Objects Exhibition" and "Over Dynasties Fine Terra-cotta Figures Exhibition" etc. were held here.

Highlights of the museum :
- Fossils of the Lantian Man (preceded Peking Man),
- The Deer Pattern Eaves Tile from the Qin Dynasty,
- The Kneeling Archer, a 120cm tall figure unearthed in 1977 from Emperor Qin Shi Huangs tomb
- The Four Footed Li, a Shang Dynasty bronze cooking utensil,
- Playing Polo, a Tang Dynasty mural of people playing polo in China,
- The Empresss Seal, a jade seal from the Western Han Dynasty, excavated near the tomb of Emperor Gao Zu, the first emperor of the Han Dynasty - one of the most important imperial seals ever found in China.

Travel Tips

Add: Yangta Road, Xian City, Shananxi Province
Tel: 86-29-85219422
Transport: Bus 5 , 19 , 24 , 26
Open time: Daily 8:00am to 5:00pm;
Admission Fee: RMB 35 per person