甘肃简牍博物馆
Gansu Bamboo Slips Museum
The Gansu Bamboo Slips Museum specializes in protecting and interpreting wooden slips and bamboo slips unearthed from Gansu frontier fortress sites. Postal records, legal cases, inventory lists, and personal letters illustrate how administration and ordinary life functioned along the Silk Roads during the Han Dynasty, while conservation exhibits also illustrate why writing is fragile in humid or extremely dry environments. It shifts attention from grand artifacts to individual texts and everyday institutions and is an important addition to the provincial museum.
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甘肃简牍博物馆
No. 12, Yintan South Road, Qilihe District, Lanzhou City
Before you go
Check the essentials before you visit
- Booking
- Advance booking recommended
- Admission notes
- Timed reservation is required under current policy; verify identity-document rules
- Suggested visit
- 3 hr
- Information updated
- 9/29/2026
Hours, prices, booking rules and ID requirements can change. Confirm them with the attraction before booking or setting out.
Opening hours
Confirmed opening hours are not available on this page. Check opening and last-entry times with the venue before setting out.
Getting there
Take Metro Line 1 to Exit A of Matan Station, then walk about 500 meters toward Lanzhou Old Street, and follow the museum visitor guidelines to enter.
Practical notes
Reservations should be made through the official system and time should be set aside for illustrations and font comparison. Photography, lighting and showroom entry rules are used to protect sensitive documents and must be strictly adhered to.
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