The Banpo Museum in Xi'an is the site of Banpo, a matriarchal commune. The site was discovered in the spring of 1953 and opened to the public in 1958. The Banpo Museum in Xi'an is located on the East Bank of the Chanhe River in the eastern suburb of Xi'an, north of Banpo Village, and is the first National Museum of prehistoric sites in China. Banpo Site is the first national key cultural relics protection unit, one of the first batch of "100 patriotic education demonstration bases", "10 scenic spots of Xi'an tourism" and "50 places that are most worth visiting by foreigners in China". The site reveals the rich cultural connotations of a typical Neolithic Yangshao matriarchal clan settlement about 6000 years ago, such as social organization, production and life, economic form, marital status, customs, culture and art.