Henan Museum

Henan Museum calls itself the largest collection, protection, research and display centre for relics in the central plains. It was founded in 1927, occupies 126 mu on Nongye Road in Zhengzhou with 55,000 square metres of floor space, and was admitted in 2009 to the first group of nationally co-built museums. Its holdings number more than 170,000 objects and sets, with prehistoric material, Shang and Zhou bronzes, ceramics, jade and stone carving as the strongest categories. The permanent exhibition is arranged as "Yanyang Huaxia, Ze Zhong Jian Du" and is flanked by gallery displays on Ming and Qing Henan, ancient stone carving in the central plains, Chu bronzes, Ming and Qing treasures, and the red culture of Henan.