Nanjing Museum is located in the southern foot of Zijin Mountain in Nanjing City, north of Zhongshan Gate, covering an area of 70,000 square meters. It is the first large-scale integrated museum invested by our country. Was named "national advanced unit of public cultural facilities management," "national museum", "central place to build national museum", "national patriotism education demonstration base."
First, the evolution of the system
At the suggestion of Mr. Cai Yuanpei, a modern democratic revolutionary and educator in our country, in 1933, the National Government created the Preparatory Office of the National Central Museum. Mr. Cai Yuanpei was personally the chairman of the first council. Li Ji and Hang Livu successively took over the work of the Preparatory Office. After the founding of People's Republic of China, is still the name of the National Museum of the Central Committee, under the leadership of the Ministry of Culture; March 1950 changed its name to the National Museum of Nanjing, the Ministry of Cultural Affairs Bureau of Cultural Relics, later under the East China Administrative Commission of the Ministry of Culture; 1954, In 1959, Nanjing Museum, Jiangsu Provincial Museum, Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Relics Management Commission office, still named Nanjing Museum. Since the founding of the hospital, the past president of Xu Pingyu, Zeng Zhaoyuan, Yao Qian, Liang Baiquan, Xu Huping, Gong Liang.