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China 1st-Grade National Museums

As of 2025, there are 7,048 museums in China,[1] including 3,054 state-owned museums (museums run by national and local government or universities) and 535 private museums. In 2021, the nation's museums saw approximately 779 million visitors.[2] Some museums of cultural relics, such as the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, have become internationally known tourist attractions. The government has exchanges of cultural relics exhibitions between museums and promotes the display and exchanges of legal non-governmental collections. The museums are classified into several grades, with the national first-grade museums being the highest classification.

List

Below is a list of museums in China grouped by the provinces or municipalities where they are located.

Anhui

  • Anhui Provincial Museum
  • Anhui Hall of Fame
  • Anhui Paleontology Fossil Museum
  • Bengbu Museum
  • China Huizhou Tax Museum
  • Ma'anshan Museum
  • She County Museum

Beijing

Chongqing

Fujian

Gansu

Guangdong

Guangxi

Guizhou

Hainan

Hebei

Harbin

Heilongjiang

Henan

Hong Kong SAR

Hubei

Hunan

Inner Mongolia

Jiangsu

Nanjing

Mock classroom of a traditional Confucius private school in China. Taken at the Nanjing Educational Museum at Nanjing Number 1 Middle School.

Suzhou

Xuzhou

Other cities

Jiangxi

Jilin

Liaoning

Macau

Ningxia

Qinghai

Shaanxi

Shandong

Shanghai

Shanxi

Sichuan

Tianjin

Tibet Autonomous Region

Xinjiang

Yunnan

Zhejiang

See also

References

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  7. Aurora Museum
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