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Gansu Provincial Museum

Gansu Provincial Museum, located on the bank of the Mother River( the Yellow River ) in Jincheng (now Lanzhou City), formerly named as the Science and Education Museum of Gansu established in 1939, and renamed as Gansu Provincial Museum in 1956, is one of the earliest comprehensive museums in China.

With favourable conditions of rich cultures and precious cultural heritages in large number left over from Gansu history, Gansu Provincial Museum houses more than 86000 pieces (or sets) of precious cultural relics with distinctive features. Of its collections, the painted pottery wares known as Neolithic Crown, the Han dynasty wooden slips documents, the Han and Tang treasures found on the Silk Road, Buddhist art and the paleontological fossils are the representatives with remarkable diversity.

The five permanent exhibitions presently on show are Gansu Silk Road Civilization, Gansu Painted Pottery, Gansu Paleontological Fossils, Solemn Faces—Gansu Buddhist Art, and the Red Gansu—Heading for 1949. They reflect the profound history and culture of Gansu.

Gansu Provincial Museum, a National First-class Museum, a winner of the honorary title of “Provincial Civilization Unit of Gansu”, is a national center for patriotism education and popularization and education of science.

Mr. Jia JianweiDirector

Mr. Jia Jianwei, born in July 1964, employed officially in October 1981, a member of the CPC, is director and researcher of Gansu Provincial Museum, winner of Excellent Individual Working for Cultural Heritages in 2003 and Wang Yeqiu--Zheng Zhengduo Award of Excellent Individual for Heritage Conservation in 2006 issued by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. He is a member of the Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee of Gansu Province, Professor and Master Tutor of Cultural Relics and Museology of Lanzhou University, Specially Invited Appraisal Expert of National Museum of China, a First Level Candidate of Leading Professional and Technical Talents of Gansu Province.

He was appointed as a deputy director of Gansu Provincial Museum in 2009.

Mr. Jia Jianwei has long been engaged in the research of Neolithic painted pottery, porcelain, bronze and jade of all periods in northwest China. He has worked as director to guide design, content compiling of the permanent exhibitions of Gansu Provincial Museum and was invited to give thematic lectures many times by Fudan University, Lanzhou University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hebei Museum, Guangdong Museum and others. He was involved in publication of the Study of Western Xia Dynasty Documents Collected in Chinese Museums, which was the 15th Plan major project of Humanities and Social Sciences funded by Education Ministry and he was a deputy editor of Part Gansu of the above study book. The project was officially accepted and as a result its book was published in 2017 and won the First Award of Outstanding Achievements for Study of Local History and Chronicles.

Mr. Jia jianwei has taken part in many national and provincial research projects and published more than 10 scholarly monographs and over 20 academic papers.