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Beijing Museums

Arts and culture in Beijing: exhibiting areas and shows



Museums


1 Arts & Crafts

This Museum contains thousand arts & crafts products, from beautiful ivories statues to antique porcelain, made by artists through the years.A visit here it's a Must for handcraft lovers.

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Address: 200 Wangfujing St
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2 Aviation Museum

This is the first aviation museum in China, and it aims to support the technical knowledge about airplanes and everything is related to the aircraft.It has 2 exhibition area, one on the inside, and another, outside, where...

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Address: 37 Xueyuan Road
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3 Beijing Museum of Natural History

The museum display a large collection of fossil and all kinds af animals.

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Address: Beijing Museum of Natural History
126, Tianqiao ST, Beijing
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4 Chinese Ethnic Museum

The Chinese Ethnic Museum in Beijing has traditional buildings where one can see customs and performances by various ethnic groups, eat traditional delicacies and buy national handicrafts.

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Address: Chaoyang District
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5 Jintai Art Museum

Here you can find the largest collection about China Folklore, but at the same time the Museum aims to introduce its visitors all the colours and the tradition of foreign countries, arranging thematic exhibition.

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Address: Chaoyang Park
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6 Leather Silhouette Show

Located in the ground floor of a recent construction, visitors can enjoy an amazing collection of leather silhouette works, from different historic periods.

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Address: Jinqiao Garden, House 16
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7 Memorial Museum of Guo Shoujing

This Museum, placed in the Huitong Temple is completely dedicated to Guo Shoujing, a very important Astronomer and Scientist, who created several astronomic tools such as the yangyi or the gaobiao, still conserved...

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Address: Xida Street of Deshengmen
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8 Military Museum

Also known as the Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution, this museum is situated in Beijing. Established in 1959, this huge building is home to paintings, historical photographs and models...

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Address: 9 Fuxing Road, Haidian District
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9 Museum of Aeronautic and Astronautic Models

Nestled in a green landscape this museum aims to show flight models to people who love this kind of emotion.Within the museum there are several facilities such as conference centre, exhibition hall and a collection...

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Address: Dashanzi Huantie
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10 Museum of Traditional Opera

This is a museum where, daily, several exhibitions and dramas are played, in very artistic halls, as well as educational tours are planned to satisfy all the visitors curiosities.

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Address: Hufangqiao Road
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11 National Museum of China

The artwork collection in the museum will allow you to truly appreciate the brilliance of China’s 5,000 years of history and culture.

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Address: National Museum of China
16, East Chang’an Street, Dongcheng district, Beijing
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12 National Wax Museum

Diveded in seven section, this wax museum, the largest in China, can entertain visitors in a funny way, while they look at sport champions, or politicians accurately reproduced by the artists of the wax.

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Address: China's National Museum
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13 Palace Museum

Popularly called The Forbidden City, the museum covers an area of 720,000 square meters. The collections comprise nearly a million art-works covering five thousand years of Chinese particularly focused on art and artifacts from the Qing imperial...

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Address: N.D.
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14 Planetarium

The Planetarium is one of the most attractive place to visit in Beijing, and is dived in two different parts: Planetarium and the Ancient Observatory, both with the aims to help Astronomy to grow up year by...

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Address: 138 Xizhimenwai Street
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15 Prince Gong’s Museum

This is the best maintained mansion of Qing dynasty, where it is still possible to look at the aesthetic taste of the 18th century. There is an area of 6 acres of garden, with a theatre where daily there are Opera...

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Address: Liuyin Jie 17
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16 Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall

Full of exhibition halls, this area welcomes its visitors with a huge statue of Sun Yat-sen seated. Visitors can also enjoy big parks and gardens, and a really interesting Pagoda.

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Address: Xiangshan Lu
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17 World Art Museum

From its particular architectural structure, we understand that this museum is completely dedicated to the new forms of art, which matches artistic value with the technological development.

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Address: Fuxing Road
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18 Xu Beihong Museum

This Museum contains several products and all the masterpieces by Xu Beihong, a Chinese painter and Art educator.Inside the museum, at the bookshop visitors can buy several books about this artist, and picture-album.

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Address: 53 Xinjiekoubei
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19 Yushegtang Herbal Medicine Museum

Visitors here come back in the past and learn how medicines and herbal was prepared through different ages.There are old books, golden and silver utensils and fossils herbals conserved in particular wooden box.

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Address: No.69, Fengtai South Road
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