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The Zhejiang Provincial Museum, also known as Zhejiang Memorial Museum of Revolutionary History, is the provincial museum of
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, China, located in
Hangzhou Hangzhou, , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ; formerly romanized as Hangchow is a sub-provincial city in East China and the capital of Zhejiang province. With a population of 13 million, the municipality comprises ten districts, two counti ...
. It was established in 1929 as the West Lake Museum on the Gushan Island in the
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History

The museum as founded in December 1929 as the Zhejiang Provincial West Lake Museum, with the land of Wenlan Pavilion donated by the Zhejiang Provincial Government in December 1930. Since the Japanese invasion in 1937, the museum was relocated to multiple locations, until it dissolved in July 1941. In June 1943, it was re-established in
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in western Zhejiang, and returned to Hangzhou in the fall of 1945. In 1951, the Ministry of Culture designated the museum a local museum. In 1953, the museum was renamed as Zhejiang Museum. In 1957, Wu Changshuo Memorial Hall was built at Xiling Seal Society. In 1962, the museum added the title of Zhejiang Provincial Administration of Cultural Heritage, which was interrupted during the
Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a Social movement, sociopolitical movement in the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). It was launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 and lasted until his de ...
. In 1976, the museum was renamed as the Zhejiang Provincial Museum. Zhejiang Provincial Administration of Cultural Heritage resumed and became independent of the museum. Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Archaeology was founded in May and separated from the museum in December. In 1983, a cultural heritage warehouse was built at Gudang. In 1984, the museum's natural science section became an independent museum named
Zhejiang Museum of Natural History The Zhejiang Museum of Natural History () is the provincial natural history museum of the Zhejiang province in China. The Hangzhou branch is located in the West Lake Cultural Square in Hangzhou, which also houses the Wulin building of Zhejiang ...
. In 1999, the museum built the West Lake Gallery. On 22 December 2009, a new building was inaugurated on the West Lake Cultural Square near the
Wulin Square Wulin Square () is a square in the Xiacheng District of Hangzhou. It is served by the Wulin Square Station of the Hangzhou Metro The Hangzhou Metro () is a rapid transit system that serves Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang province, C ...
, next to the Grand Canal. It has of display space, twice as much as the Gushan building. The Wulin Branch was closed in May 2023, following the opening of its Zhijiang Branch.


Notable collections

The museum houses collections, including the Neolithic jade artefacts of
Liangzhu culture The Liangzhu () culture or civilization (3300–2300 BC) was the last Chinese Neolithic jade culture in the Yangtze River Delta. The culture was highly stratified, as jade, silk, ivory and lacquer artifacts were found exclusively in elite burial ...
, the Neolithic ivory carving of
Hemudu culture The Hemudu culture (5500 BC to 3300 BC) was a Neolithic culture that flourished on the Coastline of China, Chinese coast, just south of the Hangzhou Bay in Jiangnan in modern Yuyao, Zhejiang, China. The culture may be divided into early and la ...
, the Sword of Yue King Zhuji Yushi. It also holds ''The Remaining Mountain'' by
Yuan dynasty The Yuan dynasty ( ; zh, c=元朝, p=Yuáncháo), officially the Great Yuan (; Mongolian language, Mongolian: , , literally 'Great Yuan State'), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after Div ...
painter Huang Gongwang, which is part of the larger painting '' Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains'', with the other half housed in the
National Palace Museum The National Palace Museum, also known as Taipei Palace Museum, is a national museum headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in Beijing in 1925, the museum was re-established in Shilin District, Shilin, Taipei, in 1965, later expanded with a S ...
in
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.


See also

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List of museums in China , there are 5,788 museums in China, 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. Some museums of ...


References


External links


Official website
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