Henan Museum, located in Zhengzhou, is a newly-built modern history and art museum which officially opened to public on May 1, 1998. The museum has occupied an area of over 100000 square meters with total floor space of 78000 square meters. The museum has a collection of over 130,000 pieces of cultural relics treasures, of which more than 5,000 pieces are treasures of the first and second grades. Among them, the prehistoric cultural relics, bronze vessels of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and pottery and porcelain wares of the various dynasties in Chinese history possess most distinguishing features. The museum has been divided into several exhibition halls, including basic exhibition halls, specialized exhibition halls and provisional exhibition halls.