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The Sanmu Bicycle Museum is a museum in Lanzhou. It claims to be the largest bicycle museum in the world, with a collection of 1,300 antique bicycles and 13,500 bicycle accessories. The collection is said to be worth RMB 1.6 million.

The museum is the brainchild of Chai Lin (柴林), a local businessman. Lin's bought his first bicycle, a Raleigh, in 1980, an expensive purchase for an ordinary Chinese worker at the time. As Lin became a successful businessman, he started collecting rare bicycles by buying them at foreign auctions. In 2009, Lin, together with the Gansu government, invested RMB 200 million to build a museum for his collection. The museum opened in 2019.