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What are the three major museums in China?
The three major museums in China are Beijing Palace Museum, Taipei Palace Museum and Nanjing Museum.

1, Beijing Palace Museum

It is a comprehensive museum in China focusing on palaces and their collections in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is also the largest museum of ancient culture and art in China. Its cultural relics collection mainly comes from the old collections of palaces in the Qing Dynasty. The Palace Museum is the largest museum of ancient culture and art in China and the first demonstration base of patriotism education in China. One of the three largest palaces in the world.

2. National Palace Museum in Taipei

Located at No.221,Section 2, Shan Zhi Road, Shilin District, Taipei City, Taiwan Province Province, China. The National Palace Museum in Taipei covers an area of about 6.5438+0.6 million square meters. It consists of three parts: central garden and footpath, main museum buildings, cultural relics storage caves and covered bridges. It is a palace-style building designed and built according to the style of the Palace Museum in Beijing.

3. Nanjing Museum

Located at No.321,Zhongshan East Road, Xuanwu District, Nanjing, it is one of the three major museums in China. It is the earliest museum in China and the first large-scale comprehensive museum invested by the state in China. Now it is a large comprehensive national museum. Nanjing Museum has been fulfilling its founding purpose of "advocating scientific research, assisting public education and enhancing the knowledge of intellectuals through appropriate exhibitions".

Other museums not to be missed

1, Sanxingdui Museum

Sanxingdui site is the largest, longest-lasting and richest cultural site of ancient Shu discovered in southwest China so far. Many of them are unique in the world, and their shapes are absolutely unique.

Sanxingdui has five national treasures, so you must read them all. Bronze sacred tree, bronze vertical face, jade Zhang, bronze colossus, golden staff. The sacred bronze tree, with a maximum height of 3.96 meters and a residual height of 3.84 meters, is one of the largest bronzes in the world at present. The 2.6-meter-long bronze Homo erectus was obviously in a state of holding things with both hands.

2. Shaanxi History Museum

Shaanxi History Museum, located in the northwest of Big Wild Goose Pagoda, is the first large-scale modern national museum in China, with a collection of more than 370,000 cultural relics. Known as "the pearl of the ancient capital and the treasure house of China".

From simple stone tools used by ancient humans to various artifacts in social life 1840 years ago. The Shang and Zhou bronzes are exquisite, the pottery figurines of various styles in the past dynasties, the gold and silver wares of Han and Tang dynasties are unique in China, and the murals of Tang tombs are unparalleled in the world.

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