Located in the eastern suburb of Xi'an, the Banpo Museum is the first on-site prehistoric museum in China. Banpo site is a typical Neolithic Matriarchal community of the Yangshao culture with a history of 6000 years. There are approximately 400 relics of this type have been discovered near the Yellow River Basin, among which the Banpo site is the largest one.
Banpo Musuem
The site was discovered in 1953 when constructing a power factory and the excavation work lasted four years from 1953 to 1957. The Banpo site was first opened to the public in 1958 and since then, two million people have visited it.
The Banpo site, occupying an area of approximately 50,000 square kilometers, was divided into three parts -- residential area, pottery-making area and cemetery area. Among the ruins are 46 dwellings, 2 domestic animal pens and over 200 storage pits, 174 adult tombs, 73 burial jars for kids, 6 pottery-making kilns and many production and domestic tools. The site delivers to visitors a vivid picture of the lifestyle of the primitive Banpo people a very long time ago.
The Banpo Museum consists of two Exhibition Hall and a site Hall. The First Exhibition Hall mainly displays the production tools used by the Banpo people, including stone knives, sickle, fishhook, specula and so on. These exhibits give visitors a general image of Banpo people's activities. Showpieces in the second Exhibition Hall are major inventions and art items which reflect the fork culture and social life of that time. Masterpieces in this hall are Fish and Human Face Design Pottery Basin, Pointed Bottom Bottle, Pottery Streamer and Children's Burial Jar.
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