The Xi'an Stone Tablets Museum (碑林) contains the largest collection of stone tablets. The museum houses over 3000 stone tablets with a history of over 900 years, and these are all treasures of ancient China's calligraphy masterpieces. The museum also has some of the best of the Han and Tang Dynasty stone calligraphy carvings, and it also contains the largest stone tablet library of ancient historical records.
The museum was founded in 1087, and contains various stone tablets dating as far back as the Han Dynasty (206BC). The museum is world famous for preserving ancient Chinese stone tablets which record historical events, and cultural developments within China.
All together, there are 3,000 tablets in the museum, which is divided into seven exhibitions halls, which mainly display works of calligraphy, painting and historical records.
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