Covering an area of 30 acres, Changsha Bamboo Slips Museum houses more than 100,000 bamboo slips and wooden tablets dating back over 1,700 years, which have been unearthed in 
downtown Changsha since October, 1996.
The slips and tablets, which were inscribed with characters, recorded in detail the political, economic, military, cultural and geographic information of the ancient Changsha prefecture which was under the rule of Wu Kingdom (222 AD-280 AD), according to local government sources.
The astounding bamboo and wooden slips were known as "one of 20th Century's most important archeological discoveries in China" and also labeled as "the fifth great discovery of ancient Chinese records" following the unearthed inscriptions on oracle bones from Yin Ruins and Dunhuang documents.
Changsha Bamboo Slips Museum is currently the world's only one set of slips collection, protection, repair, research and exhibition show in one of the new modern thematic museums, but also an important cultural attractions in Changsha and opening windows.
Changsha Bamboo Slips Museum opened to the public in 2007.It was listed among the third batch of national first-class museums, Changsha Evening News reported on Jan 13.2017.So far, Hunan province has four national first-class museums. The other three are Hunan Provincial Museum, Mao Zedong Memorial Hall in
Shaoshan, and Liu Shaoqi Memorial Hall in Ningxiang county.
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