See the highlights of Xi’an Museum

Xi’an Museum is located in Jianfu Temple. Through the theme exhibition “Ancient Capital Xi’an” in the courtyard, you can learn about Xi’an’s thousand-year history as a capital and the history of its development. There are also “city models” of Xi’an from the Zhou Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the courtyard, which can show the scale, layout and living conditions of the capitals of various dynasties.

The museum also collects numerous cultural relics from various eras in Xi’an. Some of the cultural relics were unearthed from important dynasties in Chinese history, such as the Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties. There are many fine cultural relics among them, such as: the “Tri-Colored Birth Horse” from the Tang Dynasty, which adopts a saddle-free and reinless design, reflecting the free and unrestrained social style of the Tang Dynasty; the “Tri-Colored Lotus Petal Vessel Base” from the Tang Dynasty, which has a lotus-petal-patterned base and a tower-shaped lidded jar, and has obvious Buddhist meanings; the “Garlic Pot” from the Western Han Dynasty is a representative artifact of Qin culture, which originated in Guanzhong and spread to various places with the Qin’s war of unification. By the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, the garlic pot had basically disappeared.

In addition, the museum also has special exhibitions, such as: Buddhist sculpture art, ancient calligraphy and painting, jade, seals with the title “Ke Li Da Qian”, etc. The museum and the Small Wild Goose Pagoda are in the same courtyard.