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Hebei Provincial Museum
This vast museum was closed when I visited in July 2008 which was a real shame as it's about the only thing worth visiting in the city. There were some new buildings being built behind the exisiting main museum building and the whole museum is set to re-open in 2010.
However, there were a couple of exhibitions on the ground floor that were open. The first one, (on the right as you walk through the entrance), was about city planning with models, photos, plans and information. This wasn't all that interesting but did give an insight into how vast cities in China develop. The other exhibition (on the left as you walk through the entrance), proved to be a big surprise and was very interesting. It was all about "The Truth of the Lhasa Riot on March 14 History and Today of Tibet" that happened when I was in China in March 2008 and stopped me visiting Tibet. The exhibition was purely a large amount of photos taken at the time of the riots showing Tibetan people and monks rioting in the streets against the Chinese Army. Then there were photos of Tibetans in more peaceful times and situations to show how they're meant to enjoy living there under Chinese rule. To foreigners who know the political situation in Tibet and who know the "bigger picture", the exhibition seemed, to me, to show Tibetans in a negative light so that everyday Chinese would lean more towards their governments point-of-view rather than that of the Tibetans.
