Issue Date | 09.11.2002 |
ID | Michel: 3405-3409 Scott: Stanley Gibbons: Yvert: UPU: N/A Category: Ot |
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Value | 80 cents Tianjin Natural History Museum 80 cents Shaanxi History Museum 80 cents Shanghai Museum 80 cents Henan Museum 80 cents Tibet Museum |
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The Tianjin
Natural History Museum, located at the west end of the
Machang Road,
was set up in 1914 by a French missionary and opened in 1927, with the
previous name as Beijiang Museum. It got the present name in 1957. The
museum is specialized in collections of paleontology and
paleo-anthropology fossils.
Specimens total 380,000, and the key
collections show the paleontology
group in the late period of Chinese
Cenozoic Era, including fossils of ancient mammals excavated from the
Yushe Basin of Shanxi Province, the Qingyang Basin of Gansu Province,
the Yang Yuanni Basin of Hebei Province and the Inner Mongolia - the
abundance of paleontology groups of the four places are rare worldwide,
which are important
References for researches on the evolvement of amniotes. The museum
features four basic displays of Animal, Paleontology, Plants and
Paleo-anthropology fossils, containing ancient reptiles and mammals,
animal ecology, insects and aquatic organisms.
Other museums are:
The
Shaanxi History Museum is situated on Yan Ta Road in Xi'an
City,
Shaanxi Province. It is a national-level modernized large-scale museum,
and a grand imitation of traditional Tang dynasty buildings. Covering
an area of 65,000 square meters, with a building area of 60,000 square
meters, the museum gathers the cultural quintessence in Shaanxi, and
has represented the evolution of Chinese civilization by combining the
Chinese ancient palace and courtyard architectural style
together. The museum has collected 370,000 unearthed
historical relics treasures in Shaanxi, and visitors can appreciate the
treasures made from prehistory, Zhou to Ming and Qing Dynasties which
systematically shows the Shaanxi history from 1,150,000 years before to
A.D.1840. Exhibited in the main exhibition hall are 2,700 works of art,
with an exhibition line that extends 2,300 meters. The exhibition space
is divided into an introductory hall, permanent exhibitions, special
exhibitions, and temporary exhibitions, as well as one that has been
named the National Painting Hall.
Shanghai Museum. As
a museum of ancient Chinese art, Shanghai Museum possesses a collection
of 120,000 precious works of art. Its rich and high-quality collection
of ancient Chinese bronze, ceramics, painting and calligraphy is
specially celebrated in the world.
The
Tibet Museum is located in the southeast corner of Norbu
Lingka, Lhasa
city. It covers an area of 23,508 square meters (5.8 acres) including
the exhibition area of 10,451 square meters (2.6 acres). The museum is
equipped with modern facilities to ensure quality service for visitors
and safety and efficient administration of the museum itself. Here
exhibits are introduced in Japanese, English, Tibetan, and Chinese, in
order to accommodate visitors from all over the world. The
construction project of the Tibet Museum was listed as one of the
sixty-two "Aid-Tibet Projects" in July 1994.The museum opened in
October 1999 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Founding of
the People's Republic of China and the 40th anniversary of Tibet's
Democratic Reform. The former Chinese chairman Jiang Zemin inscribed
the named for the Museum. The museum building is a pioneering
institution in the history of Tibet. Designed by a Han Chinese
architect from Sichuan province, the complex is a wonderful combination
of Chinese and Tibetan architectural styles.
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