The Anhui Museum in Hefei is a large comprehensive museum with collections of relics and samples, and is an institution for scientific research. Opened in 1956, it covers an area of 52,000 square meters, with a floor space of more than 20,000 square meters and a collection of over 230,000 relics in a wide variety and dating back to the Old Stone Age. The most famous relics of its collections are the bronze wares of the Shang and Zhou dynasties (16th century221 B.C.), the currencies of the State of Chu, the stone relieves of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), four treasures of the study, paintings and calligraphy of Xin'an, carvings of Huizhou.
