The Tang West Market Museum
The Tang West Market Museum is China's first urban museum at the Western Market archaeological site in Chang'an City during the Tang Dynasty. The museum covers a total area of 15 mu (mu is the Chinese system of area measures, approximately 163 acres), with a construction area of 32,000 m2 and an exhibition space of 8,000 m2, including 2,500 m2 of archaeological site. The collection of the museum consists of 20,000 items, which include various cultural relics and, mainly, relics of the archaeological site and other values carefully collected by the founder of the museum. These exhibits cover a long period of history, approximately 3000 years from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties. The collection includes exquisite mysterious bronze items, magnificent colorful ceramics, numerous terracotta figures, bright gold and silver items, extraordinary beauty and the finest remains of ancient silk paintings, jade jewelry made with great skill, as well as a large number of such relics as monetary units. epitaphs, objects of religion and architecture. All of these exhibits are presented in a spacious museum and form a superb exhibition.