http://www.zhejiangmuseum.com/

Founded in 1929 and originally known as the West Lake Museum, the Zhejiang Provincial Museum is one of the oldest and best-known museums in China. It is on the northern banks of the picturesque West Lake in Hangzhou, at the southern foot of Gushan Mountain.

Boasting a collection of over 100,000 invaluable cultural relics which include 158 items of the first grade, it is a treasure chest of ancient Chinese history and culture. The world-famous ones are: pottery and lacquer wares, wooden, bone and ivory objects dating from the Hemudu Culture (5200-4500BC), jade articles and silk fabrics from the Liangzhu Culture, bronze wares and weapons from the State of Yue in the Warring States Period (475-221BC), celadon wares from the Yue Kiln, Longquan Kiln and the Imperial Kiln produced through the dynasties from the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Other exhibits include the works of Zhejiang's painting and calligraphy masters of the Ming and Qing dynasties such as Zhao Mengfu's calligraphic work, and paintings by Wu Changshuo, etc.

Currently, the Museum has seven exhibition halls, namely, the Historical and Cultural Relics Hall, Celadon Hall, Calligraphy and Paintings Hall, Hall of Hemudu Culture, Zhejiang Handicrafts Hall, Hall of Gifts, and the International Cultural Exchange Hall, the most famous of which is Celadon Hall.

In recent years, the Museum has held a series of exhibitions, including Zhejiang Historical Relics Display, Hemudu Culture Display, Zhejiang Revolutionary Relics Display, and Zhejiang Folk Arts Display, etc. It has also arranged some international academic seminars and several exhibitions in Japan, the United States, Germany, and Singapore, etc.

Works on cultural relics published by the Museum includeRelics Collection of Zhejiang Provincial Museum,Landscape Paintings of Huang Binhong,Celadon Porcelains of Longquan Kiln,Cultural Relics of Zhejiang Province, and so on.