Sackler Art and Archaeology Museum at Peking University

The Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University is located on the western campus of the university. The museum was created by the famous collector and philanthropist Arthur M. Sackler. The entrance to the museum is located at the end of a five-storey building built of red brick. The museum exhibits more than 10,000 exhibits covering a period of 280,000 years, starting with the Paleolithic. The exposition consists of archaeological artifacts made of bronze, jade, ceramics found during excavations in China and other countries. In the exhibition halls of the museum, all the epochs of ancient China are presented in chronological order.