Henan
Provincial Museum

this museum is located in Zhengzhou, China, in
the Henan province, and houses an art and history museum with a
marvelous collections of over 130,000 pieces of cultural
artifacts that have been acquired through its years of
operation. Besides the collection of human history, the museum
also is home to numerous artifacts of natural history that
houses dinosaur bones and fossils, with the current building
that opened in 1997, contains over 300,000 square feet of space.
Part of the collections include prehistoric artifacts, porcelain
and pottery wares from the numerous dynasties of the Chinese
culture, and bronze vessels of the Zhou and Shang dynasties. The
interior contains regular exhibition halls, provisional exhibit
halls and specialized exhibition halls, and showcase any
collections that are housed there. It is one of the oldest
museums in the nation, and in 1927, General Feng Yuxiang who was
the leader of the National Revolutionary army and chairman of
the Henan province, stated that education is the essential
politics of a country and in the next year, a founding committee
would be started.
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