Shanxi History Museum
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Check out the Shanxi Museum web site here. A miniscule sample of its great collection follows.
Open-work Ding (Spring and Autumn Period, 770-476 B.C.)
Bird-shaped Zun (Western Zhou, 1100 to 771 B.C.)
Owl-shaped You. Shang Period (16th-11th centuries B.C.) Its side view is below.
Painted Pottery Jar (Neolithic, around 4,000 B.C.; similar to Greek pottery of the time)
Qi Dynasty (570 A.D.)
Camel and horses (Qi Dynasty 570 A.D.)
Doors (Northern Qi 571 A.D.)
Dancing Tartan (Northern Qi 571 A.D.)
The tomb of Yu Hong (Sui dynasty A.D. 580 to 618). Read an interesting National Geographic article here and another, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, here.
A close-up of a section at the botton of Yu Hong's tomb.
Sorry, the paintings didn't come with information.
Can't find any info for this one. The single problem in this museum for a foreigner is the absence of English descriptions for many of the items.
A detail is presented below.
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