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Gansu Provincial Museum
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The most famous item in the collection of this excellent museum is the elegant bronze "Flying Horse," considered a masterpiece of ancient Chinese art. Other notable objects include a silver plate documenting contact between China and Rome more than 2,200 years ago, and wooden tablets used to send messages along the Silk Road. Exhibits are uniformly subtitled in English.
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