Nanjing Museum
People's Republic of China · Asia
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The Nanjing Museum (Chinese: 南京博物院; pinyin: Nánjīng Bówùyuàn) is a provincial public museum in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. It is owned by the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government and operated by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism.
With an area of 70,000 square metres (17 acres), the museum is one of the largest museums in China, with over 400,000 items in its permanent collection. Especially notable is the museum's enormous collections of Ming and Qing imperial porcelain, which is among the largest in the world.
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