中国国家博物馆 | |
Established | 2003 |
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Location | Beijing |
Type | Art museum, history museum |
Collections | Chinese art |
Collection size | 1.3 million |
Visitors | 2,377,600 (2021)[1] |
Director | Wang Chunfa[2] |
Owner | Ministry of Culture and Tourism |
Public transit access | 1 Tian'anmen East |
Website | en |
The National Museum of China is an art and history museum located on the eastern side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The National Museum of China has a total construction area of about 200,000 square meters, a collection of more than 1.4 million items, and 48 exhibition halls. It is the museum with the largest single building area in the world and the museum with the richest collection of Chinese cultural relics.[3] It is a level-1 public welfare institution funded by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.[4]