Weifang museum was founded in 1962 with the approval of Weifang people's Government Committee of Shandong Province. The new museum was built in 1999, covering an area of 24053.5 ㎡ and a building area of 18669.7 ㎡; in November 2007, the unit was classified as a public welfare class I institution; in 2016, the Department was adjusted into nine departments at the level of office, finance department, publicity and education department, listing Department, custody department, cultural security department, Kaogu department, material management department and security department, with 56 authorized staff, including a curator and Party branch secretary Two deputy curators. In terms of professional and technical titles, there are 5 research librarians, 5 deputy research librarians, 26 librarians and 10 assistant librarians. The number of professional and technical personnel accounts for 90 × simple × HTML × voku × executive × staff.

Weifang museum is a national first-class Museum integrating publicity and education, social services, cultural relics collection, display and exhibition, cultural and museum research, cultural relics protection, archaeological excavation, cultural and creative research and development. There are nearly 80000 cultural relics in the collection, covering 33 categories, including fossils, pottery, porcelain, bronze, jade, coins, ancient horn and toothwood, calligraphy and painting, stele extension, ancient books, inscriptions, statues, weaving and embroidering, seal and signboard, folk costumes and ornaments, and modern revolutionary cultural relics. Among them, "Weifang elephant fossil" and "Dawenkou Culture thin embryo high handle cup" which are thin as paper, black as paint, bright as mirror and bright as porcelain "belong to the new species of prototoothed elephant 200 thousand years ago, Tiefo of Tang Dynasty, the earliest and largest existing Tiefo of Tang Dynasty in China, the only" Ji Tai Shan Ming "by Li Longji, the famous Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty at home and abroad, Zhu Shatuo and" cliff orchid "by Zheng Banqiao of Yangzhou school are all Collection of treasures.

Weifang Museum has several fixed exhibitions, such as Weifang brief history, collection of calligraphy and painting, folk custom and folk art, stone carving art gallery, etc. Each exhibition focuses on the display of fine cultural relics in the collection. By using various forms such as plates, models and touch screens, the audience can not only feel the freshness of historical relics across the limitation of time and space, but also obtain spiritual pleasure and knowledge precipitation from the lingering of many exquisite collections. Among them, "Weifang brief history exhibition" won the "top ten excellent exhibition nomination Award" of the State Administration of cultural relics. At the same time, using a number of temporary exhibition areas, successively held "quiet and distant - Huangbinhong Art Exhibition", "200th anniversary of Chen Jieqi's birth - Jinshi Qianqiu Exhibition", "hometown of Art - Liu Guosong, Mo Yan calligraphy and painting exhibition", "WuChangshuo Art Exhibition", "FENGZikai Art Exhibition", "Jinshi Xiangqi - Jinshi inscription exhibition", "Qilu treasure exhibition", "the 10th China photography golden statue award" More than 200 influential exhibitions in and out of the province, such as the exhibition of works, receive more than 570000 visitors annually, including more than 300000 teenagers, and build a holy place for Weifang people to receive cultural baptism.

In recent years, Weifang Museum has won the titles of "national first level museum", "national popular science education base", "national advanced security unit", "excellent Museum of Shandong Province", "advanced spiritual civilization unit of Shandong Province", "advanced collective of the first national movable cultural relics census of Shandong Province", "advanced unit of cultural relics system of Shandong Province", "advanced unit of Shandong Province" Worker pioneer, Shandong Province caring about the next generation of popular science education base, Shandong Province patriotism education base, Shandong tourism service brand and other honorary titles.