The hall of the new Shandong Provincial Museum, which opened to the public in November 2010.

The Shandong Provincial Museum in Jinan, Shandong's capital, was completed and opened to the public in November 2010. It is a comprehensive museum with the largest floor space of any provincial museum in China.

It houses a collection of more than 100,000 historical artifacts. Highlights of the collection include chinaware, bronzeware, painting, calligraphy, oracle bones, bamboo slips and pictorial stones from the Han Dynasty (202 BC- 220 AD).

The old Shandong Provincial Museum, founded in 1954, was the first large-scale provincial museum in China.

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