The Suzhou Museum(Chinese:苏州博物馆, pinyin:sūzhōu bówùguǎn) is one of the World Cultural Heritage sites, and Prince Zhong's Mansion, one of the national relics protection sites.
This is the only museum in China's mainland designed by I.M. Pei, a Chinese American who is widely considered as one of the most distinguished architects in the world. It has a display area of 2,200 square meters. It has more than 15,000 pieces in its collections. Most are ancient paintings and calligraphy, ceramics, crafts, unearthed relics and revolution relics. Among them 247 pieces are ranked first-class. It also possesses more than 70,000 books and documents, and over 20,000 rubbings of stone inscriptions. The collection of paintings and calligraphy includes works of masters from Song Dynasty to Ming and Qing Dynasties.
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