Jiangxi Provincial Museum

The Jiangxi Provincial Museum, located at Nanchang City, is a province-level historical museum of China. It was prepared in 1953 and officially opened to the public as a topological comprehensive museum on July 1, 1961. In 1971 it became a specialized museum engaged in archeological excavation and collection and study of historic relics. In October 1978, its name was changed into the Jiangxi Provincial Historical Museum. In August 1980, the Jiangxi Provincial Historical Museum and the Jiangxi Provincial Revolutionary Museum merged into the Jiangxi Provincial Museum.

With an area of 13,000 square kilometers, the Museum has collected 34,000 items of collection. The basic exhibitions are composed of the Historical Hall, the Revolutionary Hall and the Natural History Hall.

The Historical Hall’s collection includes relics going back to the earliest days of human settlement in the province, with some 500 relics of the Gan culture that dominated through the Han Dynasty (202 BC-220 AD), a permanent exhibit on Jiangxi Hakka culture and numerous examples of ancient bronze, jade and ceramic artefacts.

The Revolutionary Hall documents (and glorifies) the role of Nanchang and the Nanchang Uprising of 1927 in the creation of the People's Republic of China while also telling the broader tale of anti-imperialist struggle going back to China's "feudal" period; this brand of "patriotic education" may be a bit heavy on the patriotism at the expense of objectivity, but nonetheless, the exhibits shed light on modern China's self-image and national narratives.

Finally, the Natural History Museum presents locally found dinosaur skeletons along with numerous exhibits on contemporaray flora, fauna, geography and geology.

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