Top 10 private museums in China

Top 4: Museum of Ancient Pottery Civilization

The museum is located near the Beijing Da-Guan Garden, lending it an air or originality and tranquility to go with its decidedly antique flavor. The Museum of Ancient Pottery Civilization specializes, unsurprisingly, in pottery culture. The culture relics it preserves include more than 100 ancient painted pottery relics from the Neolithic Age and potter from the Zhou, Qin and Han Dynasties. It also holds more than 300 circular façade tiles from the Warring States period and Qin and Han Dynasties, as well as more than 1,000 lutes from the Qin and Han Dynasties. The museum also features a further 2,000 pieces of ancient pottery.

Top 3: Guanfu Museum

Guanfu Museum is an art museum founded in 1996 in Beijing by Ma Weidu. The museums main attractions are its ceramics hall, furniture hall, oil painting hall and doors and window frames. The museum focuses on cultural relics from the Ming and Qing dynasties. It also has a number of striking excellent theme exhibitions, including blue and white porcelain from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, writing materials from ancient China, metalwork from ancient China and doors and windows from ancient China.

Top 2: Jinquan Coin Museum

Jianquan Coin Museum is the first private museum in China to focus on coins. It is also the first private museum in China to gain membership of the International Council of Museums. The first branch of the museum was established in 2002 in Xi'an, and there are now three additional branches in Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen. Each museum has its own characteristics. For example, the Beijing branch features more than 6,000 types of coins, ranging from money cowry (shell money) from the Neolithic Age to paper money from the Republic of China era. The Xiamen branch focuses on currency which features the characteristics of southern Fujian.