6-473: Central Museum may refer to: Nanjing Museum , formerly National Central Museum, China Centraal Museum , Utrecht, Netherlands Central State Museum of Kazakhstan Indore Museum or Central Museum, India Nagpur Central Museum , India Southend Central Museum , England Central Museum , Peru Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
12-589: Is located in Nanjing , the capital of Jiangsu in East China. With an area of 70,000 square metres (17 acres), it is one of the largest museums in China, with over 400,000 items in its permanent collection. Especially notable is the museum's enormous collections of Ming and Qing imperial porcelain, which is among the largest in the world. The Nanjing Museum was one of the first museums established in China. The predecessor of
18-741: The 1930s, only the Humanity Hall was built. During the Japanese invasion , part of its collections were transferred to Southwest China, and in the end moved to the National Palace Museum in Taipei when the Kuomintang lost the Chinese Civil War . The historian Fu Sinian and anthropologist and archaeologist Li Ji were once preparatory presidents, and the archaeologist and museologist Zeng Zhaoyu
24-583: The Nanjing Museum was the preparatory department of the National Central Museum, which was established in 1933. The museum took over 12.9 hectares (32 acres) in the Half Hill Garden of Zhongshan Gate. Cai Yuanpei , the first preparatory president of the council of the museum, proposed building three major halls, named "Humanity," "Craft" and "Nature". Because of China's political instability in
30-543: The title Central Museum . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Central_Museum&oldid=1208790404 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Nanjing Museum The Nanjing Museum ( Chinese : 南京博物院 ; pinyin : Nánjīng Bówùyuàn )
36-402: Was the first female president and also a founder of Nanjing Museum. In 1999 and 2009, extensions were built to the museum. The main building was designed by Liang Sicheng in the 1930s combining Chinese and Western architectural styles. The front section is structure of traditional style and features a golden tiled roof. In the back is a Western-style flat-roof structure. Added in the 1990s to
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