Tianshui Museum

The Tianshui Museum, founded in 1979 and installed in the local Fu Xi Shrine, elaborates on the culture of Fu Xi. The Museum covers an area of 30,060 square meters and has nine exhibition halls as well as a high definition digital cinema. Its collection includes stone tools, bone tools, pottery, ironware, jade, ceramics, carved bricks, seals, scholarly accoutrements, traditional paintings and calligraphy works, and coins. Painted pottery from the Neolithic Era, bronzeware from the Shang and Zhou dynasties (c.16th century - 256 BC), and ceramics dating from the 10th century to the early 20th century are its primary attractions.