The Shandong Museum occupies a building with 82,900 square meters of space[1] and houses a collection of more than 210,000 historical artifacts.

In 1942, the museum expanded to a building in the compound of the Red Swastika Society on Shangxin Street.

[1] When the Shandong Provincial Museum (Chinese: 山东省博物馆; pinyin: Shāndōng Shěng Bówùguǎn) was founded in 1954, its collection of historical artifacts occupied the compound of the Red Swastika Society, whereas the Guangzhi Yuan housed its natural history collection.

[1] The building was completed in October 1992,[1] its street address is: Number 14 Jing Shiyi Road, Lixia District, Jinan.

In December 2007, ground was broken for a new, significantly larger museum located on Yaojia Street in the Lixia District to the southeast of Jinan's city center.