The new Zhengzhou Museum in Central China's Henan Province recently opened to the public after four years of construction.
With a total building area of about 147,000 square meters, the museum includes public area, business area and staff area and is currently the largest single museum structure in the country.
It is China's first museum to have a main structure with coupling beam dampers that are able to effectively reduce earthquake damage, giving it a lifespan of more than 100 years.
The outside of the museum looks like a crown.
Entering the museum, visitors will see a 70-meter long and 8-meter high sculpture consisting of Chinese historic celebrities like the Yellow Emperor - the legendary ancestor of the Chinese nation, Yu the Great - founder of the Xia Dynasty (2100-1600 BC) - and Li Bai, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
The exhibition area in the museum covers about 36,000 sq m, and displays exhibits of Central China in all ages from the Paleolithic age to modern and contemporary times in 21 exhibition halls.
Established in 1957, the Zhengzhou Museum was the first prefecture-level museum built in Henan after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It was also included in the first batch of China's national first-class museums with nearly 60,000 collections.
The collections have been moved to their new home that is expected to be a platform for visitors to learn about the cultural relics and a bridge between traditional Chinese and other cultures.
The new museum was built by China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Group Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering Corporation.
A view of the new Zhengzhou Museum in Henan Province [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)
