Gansu Provincial Museum, Provincial museum in Lanzhou, China.

The Gansu Provincial Museum stands at 3 Xijin West Road in Lanzhou's Qilihe District. Its exhibition building covers 28,000 square metres, with about 9,000 square metres of galleries and 7,600 square metres of storage. Eighteen halls hold five permanent exhibitions, among them Gansu Painted Pottery, Silk Road Civilization and Gansu Paleontological Fossils.

The museum traces its origin to the Gansu Provincial Science and Education Museum, formed in 1939 and one of western China's earliest comprehensive regional museums. It was renamed the National Gansu Science and Education Museum in 1945 and the Northwest People's Science Museum in 1950. The Gansu Provincial Museum was formally established in 1956, and in 2012 the State Administration of Cultural Heritage designated it a Grade One national museum.

The permanent exhibition "Solemn and Wondrous: Gansu Buddhist Art" presents the gold reliquary casket from the Tang dynasty Dayun Temple at Jingchuan, while the Silk Road gallery holds the Northern Song silk painting "Repaying Parents' Kindness Sutra Illustration", dated to the second year of Chunhua (991), from the Dunhuang library cave. The painted pottery galleries trace the region's Neolithic and Bronze Age wares.

The museum stands at 3 Xijin West Road in Lanzhou's Qilihe District. It opens Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00 to 17:00, with entry stopping at 16:00, and closes on Mondays except on national statutory holidays. Free guided tours start at 9:30 and 15:00; wait at the guide desk on the west side of the ground-floor hall.

The bronze horse was excavated in 1969 from a Han tomb at Leitai in Wuwei, alongside a procession of chariots and riders. It is shown galloping with one hoof resting on a flying bird, a swallow, which gives the piece its balance. The museum holds 16 national treasure items, and this is the best known.