This is a survey made on the linguistic landscape of museums in Xi'an, an ancient capital city of China. The survey indicates a series of features of linguistic landscape in the museums

Linguistic landscape concerns the language use in the public space, with museums as one of the distinctive places for language use in the public. A field survey of five national first-class museums in Xi’an, one of the prominent ancient capital cities of PR China, with special focus on the general features and functions of language signs, reveals that language signs in the museums fulfill the functions of providing information and at the same time implying specific social relationship among language users, despite the fact that problems are also prevalent including missing of key information, inconsistency of proper terms, spelling and grammatical mistakes, and mistranslation, etc. In light of this, suggestions are put forward concerning the standardization of linguistic landscape in museums.