Heilongjiang Province is a popular destination, if you're after tourism combined with a little bit of history. As the birthplace of many ethnic cultures, Heilongjiang is taking advantage of its rich cultural legacy to attract curious visitors. Let's head to a museum in China's northernmost province, to check it out.

The Jin Shangjing History Museum in Harbin is the only museum in China housing cultural relics from the Jin dynasty.

The Jin Shangjing History Museum in Harbin is the only museum in China housing cultural relics from the Jin dynasty.

Among the over 2,000 exhibits, 19 are category one National historical Relics.

For many young visitors or students on vacation, the exhibition offers something they can't find in textbooks.

Wang Yue, visitor, said, "There are many excavated relics, showing what the capital city of the Jin Dynasty was like and the people's customs. It's very interesting."

In around 1000 AD, nomads in northern China started gathering in small tribes, eventually growing together to build the Jin Dynasty.

The Jin people are said to be the ancestors of the Manchu, who hundreds of years later founded the Qing Dynasty and ruled the whole of China.

Wang Yongnian, director of Harbin Intangible Cultural Heritage Center, said, "The main feature of Jin culture is persistance and progress, bravery and modesty. Many aspects of our modern life actually date back to Jin nomadic culture."

Cao Xiao, college student, said, "I know Jin culture is very good, so I come here to learn something about it."

During last year's Qingming Festival, the museum received 15 hundred visitors. Now, with a free ticket policy in museums all over the country, Jin Shangjing History Museum is expecting to see those numbers rise by around 20 percent.