Great National Museums | Hebei Museum

| Hebei Museum. The predecessor of Hebei Museum was the Hebei Provincial Museum, which was established in 1953 and located in the ancient Lotus Pond in Baoding. It was relocated to Shijiazhuang in 1982, 14 years after Shijiazhuang became the capital of Hebei Province. In 2014, Hebei Museum was officially opened in Shijiazhuang, ending the history of Hebei Provincial Museum using the Provincial Exhibition Hall as its office. The main campus of Hebei Museum is located in the Cultural Square of Shijiazhuang. The north campus, built in 1968, and the newly expanded south campus complement each other. There are also the Jianhua and Yucai campuses, which serve as storage for cultural relics. The total construction area exceeds 60,000 square meters. The museum has a total of 210,000 cultural relics, which is considered rich and abundant in China. In Hebei, there is a saying that "a Han tomb is enough to fill the Hebei Museum." This Han tomb is the tomb of Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty, discovered in Mancheng County, Baoding, Hebei in 1968. The gold-threaded jade suit of Liu Sheng, the Changxin Palace Lantern, the Boshan Furnace inlaid with gold, the bronze sheep lamp, and the large bronze tripod with iron feet, all unearthed from the Mancheng Han Tomb, have become representative collections of Hebei Museum.