The Shaanxi Archaeology Museum opened to the public on April 28. As China's first archaeological museum, it integrates scientific research, public education and society service, and focuses on the display of archaeological work and the development of archaeological discipline.

Reproducing historical features and inheriting Tang style and ancient charm

The Shaanxi Archaeology Museum is designed by the architect master and academician Zhang Jinqiu. The design inherits the style of the Tang Dynasty and the buildings show features of Tang ones and gardens. The museum's style is in accord with the cultural ones of the Qinling Ecological Zone and the thousand-year-old temple.

The project turns conventional display area, education area, service facilities, collection warehouse, technology area, as well as business and research buildings into single buildings including a museum, a public archaeological center, a tourist center, a scientific-and-technological archaeology center, an information center and a scientific research building.

Feeling the beauty of gardens and encountering poetic Chang'an

The Shaanxi Archaeology Museum adopts traditional Chinese buildings' patterns that the buildings are symmetrical along a central axis, secondary areas are subordinate to main ones, and relatively dynamic sightseeing and relatively silent viewing are arranged in different places. Besides, the museum integrates buildings, outdoor exhibition areas and garden plants, highlights its typical features of archaeology and field research, surrounds buildings with garden plants, and creates an elegant, bracing and eco-friendly external environment.

The museum is divided into an open area and an internal area with the integration of the museum forward and the yardback. The museum, the collection warehouse and the office buildings are relatively independent but also connected to each other through corridors. The construction team follows local landforms, adopts native materials and seedlings, retains landscape in the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains, and combines museum's environment and surrounding natural landscapes.