Linxia Geopark Museum has a total construction area of 3,500 square meters and an exhibition area of 3,380 square meters. It mainly consists of six exhibition halls with different themes. They introduce to us the basics of the geopark and the earth, the geological relics and the history of Linxia Geopark respectively.This museum is also built to strengthen the educational function of the Geopark and promote the construction and development of the Geopark.

With a history of 3500-4300 years, Qijia Culture was named after Qijiaping. The place was first unearthed by Swedish archaeologist J.G.Anderson in Guanghe county, Gansu province in 1924. Qijia Culture is a world-famous cultural relic, the earliest Bronze Age culture in China. It is one of the important sources of Chinese civilization and it is a culture treasure of mankind. ChinaGuanghe Qijia Culture and Chinese Civilization Paper Collection

 HezhenggiaHipparion，PlatybelodonPlatybelodonEquus-Equus EisenmannaeHyena-Dinocrocuta gigantea, Coelodonta antiquitatis . Digital Museum Website Address：https://www.gshzmuseum.com/hzvr/index.html

Established in January 1979, the Museum of Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture is a comprehensive chorography museum. It is a national second-class museum. It is also a group member of Chinese Museum Associations, Patriotic Education Base of Gansu Province, Museum of Representing History Program of Gansu Province, Executive directing unit of Gansu Museum Association, Liberal Arts Practice and Education Base of Cultural Relics and Museum major of Lanzhou University, Teaching and Practice Base of Northwest University for Nationalities. The new museum is located in the east of Linxia city, covering an area of 13,200 square meters and its building area covers 8687.2 square meters.The museum focuses on research, restoration and clean，collection and storage, publicity and exhibition of cultural relics in Linxia Prefecture. It has 6 divisions: Archaeological Research division, Storage and Restoration division, Social Education division, Exhibition Design division, Security division and office. There are 55 staff members in the museum, 32 regular employees, 3 for public welfare position and 30 temporary employees. Among the regular employees, 26 are professionals (2 associate professors, 10 librarians, 14 assistant librarians).4288 pieces of cultural relics are preserved in the museum and 1001 are pieces of valuable cultural relics (66 pieces of National First Level, 230 of National Second Level, 705 of National Third Level). They are mainly painted pottery from the Neolithic Age to the Bronze Age. Besides，there are stone , jade, bronze, china wares, fossils, paintings and calligraphy, carved tomb bricks and national cultural relics. Among them，painted pottery of Majiayao Culture represents the biggest achievement of Chinese painted pottery culture. The painted pottery of Majiayao Culture is the most abundant and of high quality. It is famous at home and abroad.The museum has implemented the second and the third archaeological survey in Linxia since its establishment. Besides, it has conducted and excavated Bianjialin Site in Kangke County, restored and cleaned 30 ancient tombs represented by tomb of the Jin Dynasty（1115-1234）of Wangmingjia, Linxia. All above has accumulated abundant research materials for the museum. To publicize the history and culture of Linxia, the museum has successively held a series of exhibitions of cultural relics: Cultural Relics in Linxia, Painted Pottery of Linxia, Ancient Culture of Linxia, Ancient Animal Fossils in Linxia, Brick Carving of the Jin Dynasty, Painted Pottery Arts of Linxia and National Cultural Relics of Linxia and has published books such as Archaeology in Linxia, Cultural Relics in Linxia, Painted Pottery of Linxia and Gutaoshenyun（antique pottery）. And the million audiences home and abroad have visited the museum.The permanent exhibition in the museum，with an area of 3034 square meters， presents 1253 pieces of cultural relics of Majiayao Culture. In sequence of Majiayao Pottery, Bianjialin Pottery, Banshan Pottery and Machang Pottery, the exhibition comprehensively and scientifically presents profound history and artistic charm of the Painted Pottery of Majiayao Culture and art creativity of ancient ancestors. It is a brief history of prehistoric society development and a vivid textbook of patriotism. The exhibition plays an important role in the same type of cultural exhibitions in China.

With a history of 3500-4300 years, Qijia Culture was named after Qijiaping. The place was first unearthed by Swedish archaeologist J.G.Anderson in Guanghe county, Gansu province in 1924. Qijia Culture is a world-famous cultural relic, the earliest Bronze Age culture in China. It is one of the important sources of Chinese civilization and it is a culture treasure of mankind. In 2015 and 2016, Qijia Culture and Chinese Civilization international symposium and forum were successfully held by Ancient Civilization Research Center of Chinese Academy of Social Science, Publicity Department of the CPC Gansu Provincial Committee , Gansu Provincial Department of Culture, Gansu Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, the CPC Guanghe County Committee, the People’s Government of Guanghe County. The symposium and forum aimed at coordinating with the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, further protecting and developing Qijia Culture, exploring and carrying forward Qijia Culture and Chinese Civilization, increasing awareness and  influence of Qijia Culture worldwide. Representatives from about 20 research institutions of China’s mainland and over 190 representatives from Harvard University, University of Illinois, Yale University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Taipei National Palace Museum, Tainan University of Arts, Tohoku College attended the conference. A number of seniors and scholars have fully communicated academic issues with each other and carried out academic exchanges. More than 110 papers were received and two issues of China•Guanghe Qijia Culture and Chinese Civilization Paper Collection were published. The symposium and forum have demonstrated the status and influence of Qijia Culture in Chinese Civilization from different perspectives and levels and have recognized the status and historic value of Qijia Culture in academics.These efforts has pushed Qijia Culture research to a new level. Qijia Culture Museum was established in 2007 and is opened to the public for free. There are 36 staff members in the museum, 12 regular employees, 2 temporary financial employees, security staff, cleaners and other workers. The museum has 4 divisions: office, exhibition and social education division, preservation and research division, information center. It was named the Provincial Patriotic Education Base by Publicity Department of Gansu Provincial Party Committee in 2011, Qijia Culture Research Base of Ancient Civilization Research Center of Chinese Academy of Social Science and Tao River Basin Archaeological workstation of China-US Cooperation in 2015, Teaching and Scientific Research Practice Base of Tianjin University, Archaeology Teaching Practice Base of History and Culture College of Lanzhou University, Disciplinary Construction Field Research Base of Northwest University for Nationalities in 2016, Practice Base of Shanghai’s Tongji University in 2018, The First Social Science Popularization Demonstration Base of Gansu Province by Publicity Department of Gansu Provincial Party Committee and Gansu Social Sciences Association in 2019. 1680 pieces of cultural relics are preserved in the museum.There are 5 pieces of National First Level, 42 of Second Level, 204 of Third Level. The museum has received more than 1 million and 668 thousand audiences including 178 experts and scholars from abroad, 850 from home. In October 2016, Qijia Culture Museum was built in Qijia Culture square, covering an area of 14,538 square meters and a building area of 5104 square meters. It is the only theme museum of Qijia Culture in China. There are four exhibition halls in Qijia Culture Museum, namely，Finding Qijia Culture , Approaching Qijia Culture , Wonderful Qijia Culture and Brilliant Qijia Culture, which exhibit more than 480 pieces of cultural relics of different levels and textures, such as pottery, jade, bronze, bone and stone wares. On supplementary exhibits, they made and restored 12 Qijia Culture scenes: Qijiaping in Guanghe County, Huangniangniangtai in Wuwei City, Mogou in Lintan County (all above are in Gansu Province), Lajia in Minhe County, Qinghai Province. The museum comprehensively reflects the social pattern during Qijia Culture period from 5 aspects of discovery and research, means of livelihood, the handicraft industry, the settlement of Qijia Culture and east-west culture exchange. In recent years,   based on national major strategy and development in Guanghe County, Qijia Culture Museum deeply explores time value of Qijia Culture on the Yellow River basin to continue historical cultural context and strengthen culture confidence. Inheriting, protecting, displaying, researching and exploring of Qijia Culture have laid a solid foundation for developing cultural and creative industry, which will deeply integrate culture with tourism and reinforce the county’s cultural construction.

Located in the north of Liujiaxia Hydropower Station, the Yellow River Culture Expo Hall is the tourist attraction in the theme of water control.It is the only hydropower Expo center in China and the landmark of Yongjing County. It was built in the year of 2013 and officially completed and opened on April 27, 2015. The theme of the Expo is “Love of the Yellow River, Spirit of hydropower culture, Chinese Dream”.    The exhibition is composed of four portions ,the Yellow River culture, the Yellow River governance, the Yellow River hydropower, the Yellow River scenery，with the Yellow River as background, providing spiritual enjoyment for visitors.The exhibition hall covers a total area of 8,000 square meters. There are four floors in the theme of culture, governance, hydropower, landscape. The exhibition demonstrates the Yellow River culture, achievements of Yellow River management and local customs and promising future of hydropower development.On the first floor, there are three exhibition areas, preface, water and human civilization and Grand View of the Yellow River Culture. On the second floor, there are exhibition of the Yellow River management process, famous persons along Yellow River, 3D cinema and etc. On the third floor, there are exhibition of Liujiaxia Hydropower Station, the Yellow River Hydropower Station and global Water Conservancy and Hydropower Station. On the fourth floor, it exhibits the Yellow River scenery, tourism plan of Three Gorges on the Yellow River and Bingling Danxia National Geopark.

Located in the east of Hezheng County, the museum occupies 135 mu (1 mu equals 00667 hectare)of land, with a total investment of 210 million Yuan. The total floorage is 23, 085 square meters. The museum has 3 independent buildings of unique shapes, i.e. Exhibition Hall No. 1, Exhibition Hall No. 2, and Exhibition Hall No. 3, which form a triangle layout. Since 1920s, a large number of mammalian fossils have been excavated in Hezheng area. Now, the museum keeps more than 30,000 fossil specimens, which belong to more than 150 genera, 8 orders and 3 classes. The fossils of different mammalian faunas in late Cenozoic Era were respectively buried in 4 strata of different petrologic features in Hezheng area. The museum keeps 6 world records: the world's only Hezhenggia, the world's largest fossil locality of the Hipparion fauna， the world’s richest Platybelodon fossils-ontogenetic series of Platybelodon skulls, the world’s largest Equus-Equus Eisenmannae, the world’s largest Hyena-Dinocrocuta gigantea, the world’s earliest Quaternary woolly rhino-Coelodonta antiquitatis .The museum has been entitled “AAAA National Tourist Attraction”, “National Science Education Base” “National Base for Children’s Science Education”, “Patriotism Education Base of Gansu Province,” “Demonstration Base for Green Unit Construction and Environmental Education of Gansu Province”, “Hezheng Scientific Research Base of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology”, “Chinese Academy of Sciences" in succession. It won the 10th National Top 10 Museum Display Award in 2012.The Exhibition Hall for the geology of Linxia displays the geological history of the Linxia Basin under the background of the rising and evolving of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Linxia Basin is at the northeast edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. With the constant crustal movements over billions of years, it went through geologic processes like plate fractures, orogenic movements, marine changes, and recorded the geological changes of this region in the Paleozoic Era, the Mesozoic Era, and the Cenozoic Era. Particularly the complete sedimentary since late Cenozoic Era created a perfect habitat for ancient animals that adapted to different ecological environments. By displaying representative mineral and rock samples and the simulation of Linxia basin’s unique geological formation, the museum provides a perfect place for people to learn the geological evolution of this region and scientific knowledge for preventing natural disasters. The museum also keeps fossil records of different strata in late Cenozoic Era, which provide important geological evidence for the study of Linxia Basin’s geological changes and the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.The Exhibition Hall for Life Evolution reveals that the earth’s evolution has given birth to life, while the evolution of life has deeply altered the appearance of the earth. The museum displays the spiral history from origin, development, thriving and extinction of life to the birth of human beings. The whole exhibition takes ancient animal evolution as outline, biodiversity as main content, following the development order from lower to higher. There are fossils of trilobites representing the marine animals in the Paleozoic Era, fish that once conquered oceans, dinosaurs that conquered lands in the Mesozoic Era, restored skeletons of Huanghetitan and Giant Beishanlong unearthed in Gansu. Gansus yumenensis is the first Mesozoic bird fossil discovered in China. Meanwhile, it systematically shows the great development of mammals, which makes audience experience the magnificent evolution process. We could see millions of years’ struggle of lives for survival and lives’ reproduction and their extinction.