Gansu known as the Golden Stretch of the Silk Road sees the confluence of the Eastern and Western civilizations. The color pottery culture in the Neolithic Age represented by Majiayao Culture, the Early Zhou and Early Qin cultures (Zhou and Qin people all originated from Southeast Gansu), Hexi culture of Wei and Jin dynasties, the Silk Road culture in Han and Tang dynasties, the multi-ethnic cultures of Song, Liao, Xia, Jin and Yuan dynasties combined to form resplendent Gansu civilization. Over the past thousands of years, politics, economies and cultures from the East and the West conduct exchanges and dialogues and exert mutual impact upon each other in the narrow strip of land where people of different ethnic groups and races go around and live together, which has given birth to the region’s uniquely profound history and culture.

Following the timeline and sticking to the clue of cultural exchanges, the exhibition presents more than 600 cultural relics of diverse categories dating to different historical periods of Gansu through eight units, to depict the historical and cultural scenes of Gansu which has a long history, resplendent cultures and diverse ethnic groups living in harmony, and to manifest Gansu’s important role in promoting cultural exchanges between the East and the West, and in the origin and evolution of Chinese civilization.