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Shaanxi History Museum

Shaanxi History Museum is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Shaanxi History Museum rather than just read about it. In short: Shaanxi History Museum, which is located to the northwest of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in the ancient city Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province of China, is one of the first huge state museums with modern facilities in China and one of the largest. The museum houses over 370,000 items, including murals, paintings, pottery, coins, as well as bronze, gold, and silver objects.

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Reference excerpt

Shaanxi History Museum, which is located to the northwest of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in the ancient city Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province of China, is one of the first huge state museums with modern facilities in China and one of the largest. The museum houses over 370,000 items, including murals, paintings, pottery, coins, as well as bronze, gold, and silver objects. The modern museum was built between 1983 and 2001 and its appearance recalls the architectural style of the Tang dynasty.

History

Shaanxi History Museum was constructed from 1983. It was opened to the public on 20 June 1991. The museum is in an area of 65,000 square metres (700,000 sq ft), with a building area of 55,600 square metres (598,000 sq ft), cultural relics storerooms of 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft), exhibition halls of 11,000 square meters, and a collection of 370,000 objects. The museum is architecturally in the Tang style, with a "hall in center, storied buildings in corners". It is elegant and dignified, on a large scale, with a combination of traditional architecture and modern technology, which embodies folk tradition and local features. Shaanxi was the ancient imperial capital of China, having been the seat of more than 13 feudal dynasties, including the Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties. The province is rich in cultural relics. With the completion of the Shaanxi History Museum, it collected over 370,000 precious relics which were unearthed in Shaanxi Province, including bronze wares, pottery figures, and mural paintings in Tang tombs. In particular there are large numbers of pottery Tang dynasty tomb figures from the tombs of the imperial family around the city. Since the opening of the museum, it has followed the policy of collecting, conservation, publicizing, education, and scientific research, using its many historical relics, and conducted various types of display. The relics have also been exhibited overseas in cities in Japan, France, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany.

Collection highlights Highlights of the museum include:

Fossils of the Lantian Man (preceded Peking Man), The Deer Pattern Eaves Tile from the Qin dynasty, The many objects from the Tang Hejia Village hoard, found in 1970, deposited around 755 during the An Lushan Rebellion. The Kneeling Archer, a 120 cm (47 in) tall figure unearthed in 1977 from Emperor Qin Shi Huang's tomb The Four Footed Li, a Shang dynasty bronze cooking utensil, Playing Polo, a Tang dynasty mural of people playing polo in China, Frescos and pottery tomb figures from the tomb of Princess Li Xianhui, 705, Tang dynasty The Empress's Seal, a jade seal from the Western Han dynasty, excavated near the tomb of Emperor Gao Zu, the first emperor of the Han dynasty – one of the most important imperial seals ever found in China.

Gallery

Location The address of the museum is 91 East XiaoZhai Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Shaanxi History Museum

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Shaanxi History Museum ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Shaanxi History Museum

In research: Shaanxi History Museum appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Shaanxi History Museum in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Shaanxi History Museum is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1991 establishments in Xi'an, Buildings and structures completed in 2001, History of Shaanxi, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Shaanxi History Museum outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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