 It is the first large, state-level modern museum China, which is a grand complex of buildings imitating the architecture of Tang Dynasty style. The primary pavilion stands in the center; the secondary pavilions are distributed around it. A combination of national traditions, local characteristics and the modern elements is demonstrated in its solemn, rustic and orderly-arranged buildings with varying heights. The exhibition hall occupies an area of 11,000 square meters. The museum collects over 370,000 exhibits ranging from rough stone tools used in remote early stages of human society to different kinds of wares used just before 1840, with a time span of over one million years.
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