Historical Museum of Shaanxi Province is located in the administrative center of Shaanxi, Xi'an. The museum was started in 1983, but the official opening took place only in 1991, in June.

Historical Museum became one of the first huge modern Chinese upgraded museums. Its completion marked the beginning of a new era in the history of China's museums.

Architectural execution of the museum building in the style of the Tang Dynasty. The total area of ​​the museum is more than 66 thousand square meters, and a museum devoted to space 55 and a half thousand, 8000 given by the store and 11 thousand - the exhibition hall with artifacts.

The exhibition of the museum is divided into three zones. In the first zone are exposed to artifacts that date back to the time period of the Qing Dynasty, that is, until 206 BC In this room you can see the stone tools used by early humans in everyday life, bronze sacrificial vessels, pottery clay, weapons.

The second room offers visitors exhibits dating from the period before 589 AD, that is, the period of Southern and Northern Dynasty. In this room a lot of paper exhibits svitkovoy paintings and documents telling about the importance of paper production as a significant inventions of China.

The third division is dedicated to the Tang, Yuan, Sui, Song, Ming and Qing. In this hall the exposition with a model of the city of Xi'an during the period of the Tang Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty. Also, a lot of high-quality porcelain, silver and gold ware, clay figures.

The Historical Museum of Xi'an stored about 370 thousand exhibits, from the tools of ancient people and ending with luxury and everyday life with a hundred years of history. The exhibits presented at the Museum of Shaanxi Province is very important and valuable for the cultural and historical heritage of China and the world at large. Here it is stored a huge amount of gold, silver objects, ceramic statues, Buddhist statues, frescoes, as well as fragments of the tombs of the Tang dynasty and the Han. One of the most famous exhibits of the museum - remains Erectus Homo, very ancient, but little-known prehistoric man.