Gansu Provincial Museum Lanzhou

opposite the Friendship Hotel, (currently closed for renovations), Lanzhou , Gansu, China
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    History museum

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    An army for the afterlife

    ... with our taxi driver and we made our way back to Xi'an. We arranged for the taxi driver to drop us off at the Shanxi Provincial Museum.  We paid our driver and got in line.  We were surprised that the line was so long for the museum but ...

  • 2

    The Townspeople on a Bus Ride

    ... with our heads cut off trying to buy either bus or train tickets to Dunhuang (where we are now), we went to the Gansu Provincial Museum and to the night market near our hotel for dinner.  Because the Silk Road started in Gansu, the museum has a ...

  • 3

    Lanzhou兰州

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    ... Great food and great company made for a wonderful night. 25.7.10 After sleeping in we headed off to the Gansu Provincial Museum 甘肃省博物馆where we saw the Silk Road exhibit丝绸之路 and the ...

  • 4

    Visa extension number 2

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    ... of miming. It turned out that our hosts were a doctor and a nurse. There wasn’t much to do, but the Gansu Provincial Museum was very good. It had a very interesting exhibition on the Silk Road, as well as very impressive fossils and dinosaur ...

  • 5

    First steps on the Silk Road

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    ... also kebabs and lamb's feet. After satisfying our physical needs we turned to the pleasures of the mind. The Gansu Provincial Museum is a treasure trove for history buffs. One fascinating section of the museum deals with paleontology and fossils in ...

  • 6

    Silk Road, Day 6: 兰州

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    In the morning, we went to the Gansu Provincial Museum in Lanzhou.  This museum had a large exhibition that showed the history of the Silk Road as well as artifacts from it.  There was a very famous horse statue in the museum… I think it ...