西北艺术文物考察团是抗战时期由国民政府教育部组织的一个文物考察与保护团体。七七事变以后,随着日寇对中国侵略的进一步加剧,以王子云为首的爱国人士极力呼吁,为避免中国西北广大地区的重要文物遭日军破坏,应尽快成立一 Northwestern Art Relics Investigation Mission is an antiquity inspection and protection organization organized by the Ministry of Education under the National Government during the War of Resistance Against Japan. After the Seventy-Seven Incident, with the Japanese invaders further intensifying their invasion of China, the patriotic people led by Prince Yun strongly urged that in order to avoid the destruction of the important cultural relics in vast areas of northwestern China by the Japanese army,