Shandong Museum [Photo/Official Website of Shandong Museum]

Founded in 1954, Shandong Museum was the first provincially comprehensive topography museum in China. In 2007, the provincial government started construction of the new main building of the museum, and it opened to the public in November 2010.  

The newly-founded main building in the museum is 74 meters high and occupies some 82,900 square meters. It boasts a larger space, better exhibition environment, an automated management system and advanced protection hardware than the original building.

Shandong province's collection and exhibition center is the museum. Ceramics, bronzes, oracles, bamboo slips, inscriptions on pottery, clay and imperial seals, Han pictorial stones, paintings and calligraphy, and rare books are among the items in its holdings, which span history, nature, and art.

The museum houses a collection of more than 210,000 historical artifacts. Highlights of the historical collection include relics from the Neolithic Dawenkou and Longshan cultures, bronze artifacts from the Shang (c.16th century-11th century BC) and Zhou (c.11th century-256 BC) dynasties, stone carvings from the Han Dynasty (206 BC to AD 220), and paintings from the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. The natural history section features fossils from Shanwang and a fossil skeleton of Shantungosaurus.

Address: No 11899 Jingshi Road, Jinan, Shandong province

Hours: 9:00 - 17:00 (Tuesday - Sunday, entry until 16:00)

Closed on Mondays (except on national holidays)

Tel: +86-531-85058201

Admission fee: Admission is free. Visitors should bring valid documents to receive tickets, such as an ID card, senior person certificate, driving license, student card, or passport.