Xi'an Museum Travel Guide: Explore the Treasures of Ancient Chinese Culture

　　Xi'an Museum is a modern museum integrating cultural relic protection, scientific research, publicity and education, and cultural relic exhibition. It is located at No. 76 Youyi West Road, Beilin District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. Xi'an Museum is famous for its rich collection of cultural relics and profound cultural heritage. The museum has a large number of precious cultural relics, including many Han Dynasty pottery figurines reflecting ancient music and dance, kitchen work and folk sports, as well as rare cultural relics such as Tang carved porcelain from Yaozhou Kiln.

　　1. Opening hours

　　All year round, closed on Tuesdays; open from 08:30-18:00 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays from 09/01 to 10/31; open from 09:00-17:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays from 11/01 to 03/14; open from 08:00-19:00 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays from 07/05 to 08/31; open from 08:30-18:00 on New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day.

　　2. Address

　　No. 72, West Youyi Road, Beilin District, Xi'an.

　　3. Transportation

　　Bus: Take bus No. 7, No. 18, No. 21 in the city and get off at "Xiaoyan Tower" station, which is a 5-minute walk away.

　　Subway: Take subway Line 2 and get off at "Nanshaomen" station, which is a 7-minute walk away.

　　4. Introduction

　　The Xi'an Museum is located in the Jianfu Temple. Through the theme display "Ancient Capital Xi'an" in the museum, you can learn about the thousand-year history of Xi'an as a capital and the history of its development. There are also "city models" of Xi'an from the Zhou Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the museum, which can show the scale, layout and living conditions of the capitals of various dynasties. The museum also collects many cultural relics from various eras in the Xi'an area. Some of the cultural relics were unearthed from important dynasties in Chinese history such as Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang. There are many fine cultural relics, such as: the "three-color birth horse" of the Tang Dynasty, which adopts a saddle-free and reinless shape, reflecting the free and unrestrained social fashion of the Tang Dynasty; the Tang Dynasty "three-color lotus petal base" with a lotus petal pattern and a tower-shaped lid jar has obvious Buddhist meanings; the Western Han Dynasty cultural relic "garlic pot" is a representative artifact of Qin culture. It originated in Guanzhong and spread to various places with the Qin's war of unification. By the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, the garlic pot basically disappeared. In addition, the museum also has special exhibitions, such as Buddhist sculpture art, ancient calligraphy and painting, jade, seals with the title of "Ke Li Da Qian", etc. The museum is in the same courtyard as the Small Wild Goose Pagoda.