【Haichuan Travel Info】List of the 17 second batch of **Grade 1 museums – which one have you visited?

On May 18, 2008, the day of the International Museum Day on May 18, the Palace Museum and 83 other institutions were designated by Chinese authorities as the first batch of **First-Class Museums. In February 2008, the **Cultural Relics Bureau initiated** the evaluation process for first-class museums; a total of 29 provincial cultural relics administration departments recommended 149 institutions for consideration as **first-class museums**. Following expert evaluation, the **Cultural Relics Bureau has designated 83 museums, including the Palace Museum, Shanghai Museum, Nanjing Museum, and Shaanxi History Museum, as the first batch of national first-class museums. **Shan Jixiang, Director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, emphasized that grading is not merely about assigning a status, but more importantly, it serves as an evaluation tool. “In January this year, **four ministries jointly issued a notice on the free access to museums; however, free access is merely a formality – what’s important is that museums provide better spiritual and cultural products. ”The museum evaluation and grading process carried out in this context aims to help museums recognize their shortcomings without lowering their service standards. Cai Wu, Minister of Culture, said that the current practice of making museums across the country free to access holds great and far-reaching significance in breaking away from the traditional pattern in which museums were classified based solely on their administrative affiliations. It helps to encourage museums to innovate their institutional frameworks, improve their management standards, service quality, and level of contribution to society, thereby enabling the public to benefit more fully from the achievements in cultural heritage preservation.

The list of China’s first 83 **first-class museums is as follows (arranged by administrative region): Central government agencies: The Palace Museum, China Science and Technology Museum, China Geological Museum, Chinese People’s Revolution ** Museum, China Aviation Museum, Beijing Lu Xun Museum. Beijing: Capital Museum, Beijing Natural History Museum, Memorial Hall of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Beijing Planetarium, Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site Museum. Tianjin: Tianjin Museum, Tianjin Natural History Museum, Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao Memorial Hall. Hebei Province: Hebei Provincial Museum, Xibaipo Memorial Hall. Shanxi Province: Shanxi Museum, China Coal Museum, Taihang Memorial Hall of the Eighth Route Army. Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region: Inner Mongolia Museum. Liaoning Province: Liaoning Provincial Museum, Shenyang September 18th History Museum, Memorial Hall of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, Lushun Museum. Jilin Province: Jilin Provincial Natural History Museum. Heilongjiang Province: Northeast Martyrs Memorial Hall, Daqing Iron Man Wang Jinxi Memorial Hall, Aihui History Exhibition Hall. Shaanxi Province: Shaanxi History Museum, Terracotta Army Museum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, Yan’an Revolution Memorial Hall, Hanyang Mausoleum Museum, Xi’an Stele Forest Museum, Xi’an Banpo Museum. Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region: Guyuan Museum. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Museum. Shanghai: Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Lu Xun Memorial Hall, **Site of the First National Congress Memorial Hall. Jiangsu Province: Nanjing Museum, Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre Perpetrated by Japanese Invaders, Nantong Museum, Suzhou Museum, Yangzhou Museum. Zhejiang Province: Zhejiang Provincial Museum. Anhui Province: Anhui Provincial Museum. Fujian Province: Fujian Museum, Gutian Conference Memorial Hall, Quanzhou Maritime History Museum, Xiamen Overseas Chinese Museum, China-Min Taiwan Relationship Museum. Jiangxi Province: Jinggangshan Revolutionary Museum, Jiangxi Provincial Museum, Ruijin Central Revolutionary Base Memorial Hall, Nanchang August 1 Uprising Memorial Hall. Shandong Province: China Navy Museum, Qingdao Museum, China Boxer War Museum, Qingzhou Museum. Henan Province: Henan Museum, Zhengzhou Museum, Luoyang Museum, Nanyang Han Dynasty Paintings Museum. Hubei Province: Hubei Provincial Museum, Jingzhou Museum, Wuhan Museum. Hunan Province: Hunan Provincial Museum, Shaoshan* Former Residence Memorial Hall, Liu Shaoqi’s Former Residence Memorial Hall. Guangdong Province: Guangdong Museum, Museum of the King of Nanyue in the Western Han Dynasty, and Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Former Residence Memorial Hall. Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Museum. Chongqing City: China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing. Sichuan Province: Zigong Dinosaur Museum, Guanghan Sanxingdui Museum, Chengdu Wuhou Temple Museum, Deng Xiaoping’s Former Residence Exhibition Hall, Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum. Guizhou Province: Zunyi Conference Memorial Hall. Yunnan Province: Yunnan Provincial Museum, Yunnan Ethnic Museum. Tibet Autonomous Region: Tibet Museum.

It should be the colorful marine life, right? The history of the South China Sea is also an important part of it, I guess

The Sichuan Museum was established in 1941 and is located in the Huanhuaxi Historical and Cultural Scenic Area in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It is the largest comprehensive museum in the southwestern region and holds an important position among public museums across the country. In 2009, with the completion of the new building, it was renamed from Sichuan Museum to its current name. The Sichuan Museum currently houses over 260,000 cultural relics in its collection, of which more than 50,000 are precious artifacts. The Sichuan Museum has over 30 full-time and part-time researchers, who have authored academic works such as \"A Study of the Thangka of Gesar in the Collection of the Sichuan Museum,\" \"A Study of Buddhist Statues from the Southern Dynasties Unearthed in Sichuan,\" and \"A Collection of Fine Paintings and Calligraphy in the Museum’s Collection.\" In 2011, the “Improving the Restoration Capabilities of Sichuan Museum” project was designated by the **Cultural Relics Bureau as one of two pilot projects nationwide. In October 2012, it was rated as a **first-class museum. In 2017, the Sichuan Museum was named the most innovative museum in the country.

I have been to the Palace Museum, the Terracotta Army Museum, and the Shanxi Museum