Nanjing Museum

"Served as the Kuomintang's Preparatory Office of National Central Museum (founded by Mr. Cai Yuanpei in 1933). It is now a large comprehensive history and art museum, which covers a total area of over 70,000 square meters, 35,000 square meters construction area and includes two imposing ancient Liao-style palaces. It has a collection of 420,000 pieces of relics of many kinds, more than 2,000 pieces of which are of national treasures, especially the relics of archaeological excavations, ethnic minorities, foreign countries, royal court and Qing Dynasty literature." ------ Official website of Nanjing Museum

This is the first national museum during the period of Republic of China. Later when People's Republic of China was founded, a decision was made to build a new national museum in Beijing, the new capital. Many valuable collections were then transferred to Beijing and stayed there ever since. Nanjing museum itself has a rich and fascinating history regarding the foundation, preservation during war years, new renovations etc, which is handed down from generations to generations.

It has expanded to 6 Halls with the latest modern media technology and top-class services as well. It is definitely on top of my insider tips!