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 China National Museum of
Fine Arts by wwliu
The principal tasks of the gallery are:
1. To collect and research modern and contemporary art works.
2. To display its collection and sponsor exhibitionsof Chinese and foreign paintings.
3. To establish archives of the history and works ofChina's modern and contemporary fine arts; to edit andpublish the gallery's collection of paintings and to organize academic activities.
Since its establishment, China Art Gallery has held all the national exhibitions of fine arts, photography and calligraphy, such as art exhibitions held during the Chinese Art Festival. It has also held many exhibitions of foreign fine arts in China and exhibited for many times in foreign countries its collection and other art works to help people in other countries know China's achievements in cultural and art fields and to enhance international cultural and art exchange.
China Art Gallery is a treasure house of the rare modern and contemporary Chinese art workS. It has edited and published the ColleCtion of China Art Callefy and collection of masterpieces of famous Chinese painters.
China Art Gallery covers an area of 17,051 square meters. The floor space of its exhibition halls is 6,000 square meters. This magnificent structure with advanced exhibition facilities is a great hall of art well known throughout the country and other Parts of the world.
from CCNT Leave a Comment Address: No.1,Wusi Street,Beijing,ChinaPhone: 64017076Other Contact: fax: 64034953
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 The Stalinist entrance
arcade by mke1963
This museum contains some of the world's finest examples of Chinese objets d'art through the milennia. However, it does nothing to attract, inform or educate the visitor.
the museum is in about five different halls, unconnected, in different wings of the building lying to the east of Tianan'men Square in the vast white building with the flags. (Most people hate the building; I love it!)
The treasures are just breath-taking and should be managed better.
There are regular temporary exhibitions, but it is difficult to find out about these as the marketing people at the museum are as witless as the organisation people.
You will not be disappointed if you go inside for a few hours - especially if it is -7 degrees outside. Buy the guidebook and just wander through the halls.
Favourite? the bronze rhino with inlaid silver and gold clouds. I want one, and I want one now! Or maybe the jade burial suit, or the bronze age vegetable steamer, or the bronze hoes and ploughs. It must have been some kind of civilization that had the dedication to decorate agricultural hoes!!
I'm not providing the website details, because it is as hopeless as every other management aspect of the museum. Leave a Comment Address: East side of Tiananmen Square
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Perpetually packed, but especially during any of the Golden Weeks, this vast museum is both fascinating and also horrifying. It's not that it particularly glorifies war and violence (although there are elements of this, largely because of the Communist agenda of struggle) but more because of the huge numbers of lives lost to military action over the hundred or even thousands of years.
The central display halls on each floor and the outside display areas are curiously detached from the rest of the museum's wings which explain in panels and objects (everything labelled and described meticulously in both Chinese and English), forcing you to go up three big floors in the display areas before coming back down to ground level to go up the three floors of the exhibition parts.
The fascinating part of this museum is that it is a proxy for the now closed People's History Museum in Tian'anmen Square, showing the 20th Century history of China. Of course, this history is very slanted towards the propaganda and 'heroic deeds of the workers' angle, which is a bit tedious. OK. A LOT tedious after successive vast galleries.
However, it is in the personal objects and letters (many translated into English in snippets) that make this an excellent museum.
The museum is huge and the exhibitions on the Long March and the Anti-Japanese War are particularly valuable.
For those interested in older periods, there are huge galleries for these eras as well.
Think of this as being one of the best overall history museums in China, as opposed to the 'art museums' that most Chinese museums are. Leave a Comment Address: 9 Fuxingmenwai DajiePhone: 010 6851 4441Directions: Georeference: 116.317947°E, 39.906803°W There is a Military Museum subway on Line 1. Fuxingmenwai Dajie is the eastern extension of the great east-west Chang'an. The museum is between the 2nd and 3rd ringroads.
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 History Museum by nepalgoods
Just everything, which China is famous of, can be seen here. The museum is a great place to start a trip to China with, as it gives you an impression of the long history of this country. Ancient machines are exhibited as well as old silk and paintings.
Wikipedia:
"Some of the most important collections at the National Museum of China are the "Simuwu Ding" (a form of vessel) from the Shang Dynasty, which was casted over 3,000 years ago and weighing 832.840743a kg, and it is the heaviest ancient bronze ware in the world; the Shang Dynasty square bronze "Zun" (wine vessel) decorated with four sheep heads, a large rare inscribed Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century BC - 771 BC) bronze Pan, gold-inlaid bronze tally in the shape of a tiger from the Qin Dynasty, a Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) jade burial suit sewn with gold thread, and a comprehensive collection of tri-colored glazed sancai of the Tang Dynasty and ceramics from the Song Dynasty."
Further Information:
Closed for renovation
Meanwhile you should try the Beijing Museum. See my tip about Beijing Museum. Leave a Comment
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 A picture in the museum by bhemak
The museum has typical Tues-Sun hours. It had electronic multimedia screens to use, but they were both only in Chinese and seemed to be malfunctioning. Leave a Comment Address: 1 Wusi DajiePhone: 010-66126446Directions: A 10 minute walk east of the Forbidden City exit, near the intersection with Wangfujing DajieWebsite: www.blue-lotus.com.cn
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 Museum of Chinese History and
of the Revolution by socrates_07
The Museum of History is worth a visit, though it's intended for the education of the Chinese masses rather than for tourists, so there are no Engish captions. (maybe it changed already).
Without context or explanation visitors find themself wandering the four sections - labelled 'Primitive', 'Slave', 'Feudal' and 'Semi-colonial'.
The Museums are opened from Tuesday - Sunday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Leave a Comment
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National museum/Museum of the Revolution.
We were really excited about going to the National Museum as we both have a great interest in Chinese history. However, it was not to be. The National Museum is undergoing reorganisation and there were very few exhibits of interest.
The Gifts from other countries was quite interesting but otherwise I would save your money and leave the museum for after 2008.
There is a notice indicating the reorganisation but we did not think it would be so devoid of displays of historic interest.
Cost: 30 Yuan.
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It's in the middle of nowhere, it's hard to find, it's 60km from Beijing, and there's precious little to eat or drink once you get there, but if you like old planes, rockets and helicopters then the Chinese Aviation Museum is the place to go.
This mainly outdoor museum has simply hundreds of aircraft on display, from a working replica of the Wright Brothers first aeroplane right through to the 1970s Tridents, Il-62s and assorted fighter jets.
Nothing modern, and not much feel for Chinese aviation - everything has been copied from everyone else.
Chairman Mao's personal Il-18 can be boarded for 5 RMB more, as can the Orbis DC-8 flying eye hospital (no idea if any of the money collected here actually goes to Orbis though). Mao's plane has a bed, meeting room but otherwise looks pretty normal for a 1950s Russian-made aircraft.
A huge Be-2 amphibious plane is poised over a small lake, but as you head past one hanger you come upon row after row after row of decaying aircraft, each labelled in English and Chinese. A further Trident and the fuselage of yet another lie at one end of the back row.
One of the most interesting features is the huge underground hangar where there is - again - a seemingly endless line of vintage fighters and smaller aircraft, including the plane from which Zhou Enlai's ashes were scattered.
At the far end of the hangar is a rather well preserved Viscount...ah....now I remember these from the 1980s flying from Aberdeen to Lerwick! Next to it was a rather rough looking Tupolev 124, and I also remember these from a few flights in Romania back in the early 1980s.
Now if you are looking for the runway on which all these planes arrived, you won't find it! There isn't one here.
Every plane came in the way you did, through the front gate. If you feel that the last kilometre of approach road is a bit wide....it is. It is wide enough for an aircraft to be taxied from the end of the runway at the nearby Changping Airbase 4.5km to the south-west right up to the hanger under the mountain! Leave a Comment Address: East of Shahe -between Baigelukou and XiaotangshanPhone: 010 978 1054Directions: Georeference: 116.356406°E, 40.180515°N Exit 11 from Badaling Hway. R at lights, drive to the end of the very wide road, then L where it narrows. R at next big junction, crossing 6th ringroad after about 10 mins, then L onto the approach road.
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At the eastern end of the Ming wall there is an impressing watchtower. It costs a small penny to enter, and you can see a large map of Beijing in imperial times. There are also a few galleries (www.redgategallery.com). In the tower itself are 144 archers’ windows. The carvings in the wall aren’t new. Allied forces carved them during the boxer rebellion (1900).
Chinese train spotters must love this site. From here it is possible to have complete control of Beijing railway station. Leave a Comment Address: DongbianmenPhone: 85121554Directions: East of the Ming city wall ruins park
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I must confess I was a bit disappointed of this museum. Not that I think it can be a great museum, but at the time I visited it it was doing some major reorganizing. They were supposed to have an exhibition about the human body well worth traveling a long way to see: Packed in cases.
I don't know when the reorganization will be finished, but by the looks of things it might be a while.
The dinosaur exhibition was still untouched.
NB: There are limited signs in western languages. At the time I was there there were an exhibition about Leonardo DaVinci. All the texts there were in Chinese and Italian. Otherwise there were only a few English signs. Leave a Comment Address: 126 Tianqiao NandajiePhone: 67024431Directions: 39 deg 52'54.54''N 116 deg 23'36.57''E Just west of the Temple of heavenly peace park.
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