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Henan Provincial Museum houses an interesting collection of artifacts discovered throughout the province, including a particularly good collection of Shang dynasty relics. The museum also has Buddhist statues, jade carvings and ceramics.
There are seven permanent exhibitions here. Of particular interest are the Bronze Ware Hall and the Jade Ware Hall. An Audio Tour Guide is available in Chinese, Japanese and English and interactive video shows and computer consultancy services are also available. The museum also organize regular exchange programmes with foreign and domestic museums and some excellent temporary museums take place here.
There is also a permanent exhibition here on the February 7th revolt in 1923, a strike by workers building the railway from Wuhan to Beijing that was brutally suppressed.
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