List Of Museums In China
As of 2011, there are 2,571 museums in China, which includes public museums and museums of universities. Local non-governmental museums included, the number of museums nationwide has reached some 2,900. With a collection of over 20 million items, these museums hold more than 8,000 exhibitions every year and 160 million people visits. Some museums of cultural relics, such as the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, have become internationally known tourist attractions. The government has exchanges of cultural relics exhibitions between museums and promotes the display and exchanges of legal non-governmental collections.
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