Beijing Capital Museum
Beijing's new Capital Museum is relatively new and is located on Fuxingmenwai Dajie, the western extension of Beijing's Chang'an Jie.The museum is a five-storey building allowing for a maximum of 13 concurrent exhibitions, which can be viewed in about 5 hours at the price of 20 yuan (US$2.50) per visitor. It tellss the story of ancient Beijing, which has served as a capital city for more than 850 years and the Chinese capital, more or less, since the mid-17th century. It is expected to receive as many as 2,000 visitors per day.The Capital Museum is second only to China National Museum in terms of size.It will provide an English language city museum map and currently gives English-language museum brochures. Some information will be provided in Japanese. It also has other useful services such as a free cloak desk and a well-stocked museum shop. The original museum was situated in the...
