Tianjin Museum

(China.org)
Updated: 2010-11-12

The Tianjin Museum is a comprehensive art and history museum.Photo courtesy of Tianjin Museum.

Key exhibit: A painting by Fan Kuan, a famous artist of the Northern Song Dynasty.Photo courtesy of Tianjin Museum

The Tianjin Museum is a comprehensive art and history museum featuring collections of historical and artistic relics.

The museum has 200,000 collections, including calligraphy, paintings, bronzes, chinaware, jade, seals, ink slabs, oracle bones, ancient coins, historical documents, modern relics and folk crafts. Nearly 1,000 of the museum's pieces have been identified as national first-class relics.

The vast, high-quality collections have helped the museum build up its fame at home and abroad.