Situated 1 kilometers northwest of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Xian's southern suburbs, the Shaanxi Provincial History Museum - a striking Tang-dynasty style pavilions, houses a large collection of 113,000 historic and cultural artifacts unearthed in Shaanxi. It is an absolute must for every visitor to the city.

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 Mausoleum's Fine Cultural Relics Exhibition", "the Tang dynasty's 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.

A science and technology center is built for relics preservation. You are free from language incumbrance for a computer-controlled, international symposium hall provides the spontaneous interpretation of six different languages.

Admission: 35 (RMB)