Guangxi Museum, a provincial and historical museum with an area of about 30,000 square meters, includes a Displaying Building built in 1978 and the Minority Cultural Relics Garden built in 1988. Founded in 1934 and rebuilt in 1956, it was renamed as the museum of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 1958. Guangxi Museum has a rich collection of precious cultural relics which outnumber 50,000 pieces. Among them, more than 150 pieces are of the first grade, including hand axes of 830,000 years ago, big stone spades of the Neolithic age, Bronze You (Wine Vessel) with Animal-mask Pattern and Loop Handle (jar, round in horizontal section, with cover and swing handle) of the Shang Dynasty, Bronze Zun (Wine Vessel) with Snake and Frog Pattern of the Spring and Autumn Period, Large Bronze Horse of the Han Dynasty, and Phoenix-shaped Bronze Lamp, etc. The main exhibition includes: OULUO’S QUINTESSENCE——Guangxi Baiyue Cultural Relics Exhibition, Porcelain: Eternal Fascination through Time and Space. In addition, temporary exhibitions on special themes are also regularly on display. Guangxi Museum is also an institute for academic research. The major study fields are local history and national culture of Guangxi. In coordination with the works on archaeology and cultural relics, outstanding results have been achieved on the research of national archaeology, bronze drums and cliff paintings.
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