List of museums in China

As of 2025^[update], there are 7,048 museums in China,^[1] including 3,054 state-owned museums (museums run by national and local government or universities) and 535 private museums. In 2021, the nation's museums saw approximately 779 million visitors.^[2] Some museums of cultural relics, such as the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, have become internationally known tourist attractions. The government has exchanges of cultural relics exhibitions between museums and promotes the display and exchanges of legal non-governmental collections. The museums are classified into several grades, with the national first-grade museums being the highest classification.

List

Below is a list of museums in China grouped by the provinces or municipalities where they are located.

Anhui

Anhui Provincial Museum
Anhui Hall of Fame
Anhui Paleontology Fossil Museum
Bengbu Museum
China Huizhou Tax Museum
Ma'anshan Museum
She County Museum

Beijing

Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum
Beijing Folk Arts Museum
Beijing Liao and Jin City Wall Museum
Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art
Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall
Capital Museum
China Agricultural Museum
China Civil Aviation Museum
China Museum of Telecommunications
China National Film Museum
China National Post and Postage Stamp Museum
China Numismatic Museum
China Printing Museum
China Railway Museum
China Science and Technology Museum^[3]
Dabaotai Western Han Dynasty Mausoleum
Digital Beijing Building
Geological Museum of China
Guanfu Museum (private)
International Friendship Museum
Lu Xun Museum
Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution
Ming City Wall Relics Park
Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression^[4]^: 40
Museum of the Communist Party of China^[5]^: 163
National Art Museum of China
National Museum of China
National Natural History Museum of China
Palace Museum (Forbidden City)
Paleozoological Museum of China
Shangyuan Art Museum
Western Zhou Yan State Capital Museum
Madame Tussauds Beijing

Chongqing

Shandong

Shanghai

Aurora Art Museum^[7]
China Art Museum
China Maritime Museum
Chinese Comfort Women History Museum^[4]^: 40
C. Y. Tung Maritime Museum
Fotografiska Shanghai
Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai
Power Station of Art
Rockbund Art Museum
Shanghai Art Collection Museum
Shanghai Entomological Museum
Shanghai Film Museum
Shanghai History Museum
Shanghai International Wine & Spirits Museum
Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum^[8]
Shanghai Mazu Cultural Palace
Shanghai Museum
Shanghai Museum of Public Security
Shanghai Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Shanghai Natural History Museum
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center^[9]
Shanghai Water Displaying Hall
Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party^[10]^: 30–34
Yuz Museum
Long Museum
Guangfulin Relics Park
Madame Tussauds Shanghai

Shanxi

Chinese Dictionary Museum
Shanxi Provincial Museum (Taiyuan)
Shanxi Provincial Museum of Art (Taiyuan)
Datong Museum (Lower Huayan Monastery of Datong)
The Coal Museum of China (Taiyuan)

Sichuan

Zigong Dinosaur Museum, Zigong
Zigong Salt History Museum, Zigong
Sichuan Science and Technology Museum, Chengdu
Du Fu Cao Tang (Thatched Cottage of Du Fu), Chengdu
Sanxingdui Museum
Jinsha Site Museum
China Colour Lantern Museum
Jianchuan Museum Cluster^[6]^: 327
Liu Family Estate Museum, formerly Dayi Landlord Manor Exhibition Hall, in Anren, Dayi County^[6]^: 326

Tianjin

Tibet Autonomous Region

Tibet Museum

Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou
Zhejiang Museum of Natural History
Hangzhou Southern Song Dynasty Guan Kiln Museum
Hangzhou World Numismatic Museum
Liangzhu Culture Museum
China National Tea Museum, Hangzhou
China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou
Zhoushan Museum
China Finance and Taxation Museum
China Shoes Museum, Wenzhou
China Grand Canal Museum
The National Sauce Culture Museum of China
Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum, Hangzhou
Chinese Seal Museum, Hangzhou

References

↑ 李潇阳. "Traditional museums in China get innovative to woo the public-- Beijing Review". www.bjreview.com. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
↑ 陈柳兵. "Nation's museums attracted almost 780 million visitors in 2021". global.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
↑ "中国科学技术馆".
1 2 3 4 Pan, Yihong (2025). Not Just a Man's War: Chinese Women's Memories of the War of Resistance Against Japan, 1931-45. University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 9780774870368.
↑ Lu, Feingming (2025). "Neo-Maoist Sticks and Nationalist Carrots: Maintaining Party Cohesion in the New Era". In Hillman, Ben; Ji, Fengyuan (eds.). The Communist Party of China: Understanding the Durability of the World's Most Powerful Political Organization. New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009668385. ISBN 978-1-009-66843-9.
1 2 3 Li, Jie (2016). "Museums and Memorials of the Mao Era: A Survey and Notes for Future Curators". In Li, Jie; Zhang, Enhua (eds.). Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution. Harvard Contemporary China Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 978-0-674-73718-1.
↑ Aurora Museum
↑ Zhang, Chuchu (2025). China's Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum?. Changing Dynamics in Asia-Middle East Relations series. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-032-76275-3.
↑ Lin, Zhongjie (2025). Constructing Utopias: China's New Town Movement in the 21st Century. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-19-779330-5.
↑ Y. Ho, Denise (2016). "Making a Revolutionary Monument: The Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party". In Li, Jie; Zhang, Enhua (eds.). Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution. Harvard Contemporary China series. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 978-0-674-73718-1.

[1] 李潇阳. "Traditional museums in China get innovative to woo the public-- Beijing Review". www.bjreview.com. Retrieved 2023-08-04.

[2] 陈柳兵. "Nation's museums attracted almost 780 million visitors in 2021". global.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2023-08-04.

[3] "中国科学技术馆".

[:0-4] 1 2 3 4 Pan, Yihong (2025). Not Just a Man's War: Chinese Women's Memories of the War of Resistance Against Japan, 1931-45. University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 9780774870368.

[:123222-5] Lu, Feingming (2025). "Neo-Maoist Sticks and Nationalist Carrots: Maintaining Party Cohesion in the New Era". In Hillman, Ben; Ji, Fengyuan (eds.). The Communist Party of China: Understanding the Durability of the World's Most Powerful Political Organization. New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009668385. ISBN 978-1-009-66843-9.

[:Li-6] 1 2 3 Li, Jie (2016). "Museums and Memorials of the Mao Era: A Survey and Notes for Future Curators". In Li, Jie; Zhang, Enhua (eds.). Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution. Harvard Contemporary China Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 978-0-674-73718-1.

[7] Aurora Museum

[:13-8] Zhang, Chuchu (2025). China's Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum?. Changing Dynamics in Asia-Middle East Relations series. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-032-76275-3.

[:02-9] Lin, Zhongjie (2025). Constructing Utopias: China's New Town Movement in the 21st Century. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-19-779330-5.

[10] Y. Ho, Denise (2016). "Making a Revolutionary Monument: The Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party". In Li, Jie; Zhang, Enhua (eds.). Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution. Harvard Contemporary China series. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 978-0-674-73718-1.

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