Collections | National Museum of China

About Collection

The National Museum of China (NMC) houses more than 1.4 million pieces/sets of objects, covering various aspects of social development at different historical periods from ancient times to modern society. Among the collection, almost 6000 pieces/sets of objects are ranked as “First Grade Cultural Relics”, which are high in historical, research, and artistic values, comprehensively and systematically presenting the extraordinary Chinese traditions, memories from the revolution, and advanced socialist beliefs, rendering the NMC a treasure house of the Chinese civilization...

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Moving to Fight in Shanbei

The Founding Ceremony

The flag raised by Mao Zedong at the Proclamation of the People's Republic of China

Edict Announcing Emperor Puyi's Abdication

Indigo glazed double-swallow-handled pot with designs of coiling peonies outlined in gold

Jun ware purple glazed flower pot

Polychrome glazed tomb figurine of a troupe of musicians on a camel

Tomb figurine of a storyteller

Painted goose and fish lamp

Da Yu (ding)

Houmuwu square cauldron (ding)

Basin with a fish pattern with a human face

　　　　

Wooden gavel used to announce China's membership of the World Trade Organization

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