Guangxi Provincial Museum - Nanning Attractions
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Museum was established in 1978 on the east side of the People's Square in Nanning City and in 1988 a new People's Cultural Hall was added to it. The entire Museum with a building space of 22,761 square meters. The exhibition building is a modern structure with southern architectural characteristics, which contains six exhibition halls.
"The ancient bronze drums Exhibit"displayed in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Museum
The 'Guangxi Historical Artifacts Exhibition exhibits all periods of Guangxi history from Primitive Society up to the Opium War (1840-1842), reflecting local culture and the interchange with the Central Plains and neighboring regions and the process of cultural melding and development.
Another exhibition reflects the customs of the eleven national minorities in Guangxi. It exhibits their costumes, weavings, dying techniques, embroidery and so on, as well as items to do with local festivals. The Ethnic Minorities Cultural Relics Garden is an outdoor exhibition of rooms of national minority customs. This reproduces certain minority-people's architecture, such as the wooden railing buildings of the Zahuang, bamboo structure of Yao, hanging buildings of Miao, homes of Maonan, drum towers, wind and rain bridges of Dong, and other special features of local architectural design.
In addition, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Museum, there are other shows like Guangxi Historic Relic Display and Guangxi Revolutionary Relic Display.