Qinghai Provincial Museum is located on the east side of Xining Square, Chengxi District, Xining City. It is the first large-scale comprehensive museum with modern functions in Qinghai. It belongs to the Qinghai Provincial Department of Culture and Press and Publication. It is a provincial public welfare institution with an area of 17,000 square meters and a construction area of 20,800 square meters. Qinghai Provincial Museum was first established in 1957, and officially opened to the public in September 1986. On May 1, 2001, the new museum of Qinghai Provincial Museum was opened, and it opened free of charge to the society from April 1, 2008, and was named a national-level museum by the China Museum Association in January 2017. As of December 2017, the museum has 10 main and side exhibition halls, with an area of 9,146 square meters. 7 cultural relics warehouses with an area of 2,593 square meters. The museum has 14,932 cultural relics/sets, of which 2,193 precious cultural relics/sets are valuable. The cultural relics in the collection are the most distinctive in the new period of colored pottery and ethnic and religious cultural relics, involving religion, folklore, politics, economy, military, production and life and other fields. It undertakes a number of tasks such as exhibition display, cultural relics protection, scientific research, talent training, social service functions, foreign education publicity and exchange.