Address: 19 Gongmenkounei Ertiao, Fuchengmen, Xicheng District, Beijing
Description: Established in 1956, the museum boasts as the former residence of Lu Xun, a short story writer. The courtyard was bought by Lu Xun at the end of 1923, and redesigned in the following year. The courtyard ser...
Address: Inside Xiannong Temple, 21 Dongjing Lu, Xicheng District, Beijing
Address: 126 Tianqiao Nandajie, Chongwen District,Beijing
Description: Beijing Museum of Natural History, located near the Temple of Heaven, has paleontological, zoological, botanical, and anthropological exhibits. It takes evolution as the main line while focusing on the diversit...
Address: No.6 Courtyard (Qingshuiyuan Neighborhood), Dongzhimen Beidajie, ...
Description: Though water is the cradle of life, “Beijing Museum of Tap Water” has a strange ring to it. Like our good old friend the bee, water (whether it be tap, rain, river, sea or any other type) is also worthy of te...
Address: 16 Fuxingmenwai Dajie,Xicheng District,Beijing
Description: The Capital Museum, opened in May 2006, makes the most of its well-designed, modernist building to display the history and culture of Beijing in a refreshingly contemporary style. The museum, with 5 floors abov...
Address: A9 Fuxing Lu, Haidian District, Beijing
Description: Built to mark the new millennium (2000, remember?) the China Millennium Monument is located in western Beijing between the Military Museum and the Central Television Complex, just south of Yuyuantan Park. The s...
Address: 9 Nanying Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Address: 23 Jianguo Lu, Chaoyang District,Beijing
Description: The museum is a modern homage to the beauties of the woodcarver's art, with over 1000 pieces of original wood sculpture on display. Red sandalwood is the timber of choice, but there are plenty of other precious...
Address: 5 Beichendonglu, Chaoyang District,Beijing
Description: The Museum of Chinese Science and Technology is an important center for popular science education in China; its main task is to disseminate science and technology information to the public and help increase the...
Address: 1 Nan Dahongmen Lu, Fengtai District, Beijing
Address: 9 Huguosijie,Xicheng District,Beijing
Description: Mei Lanfang (1894-1961) was one of the most famous modern stars of Peking Opera. He was most renowned for his performance in female roles, and brought about a revolution in stage makeup, costumes and choreograp...
Address: 15 Yangrou Hutong, Xisi, Xicheng District,Beijing
Description: The Geological Museum of China is China's national level museum of geological science. Among the Museum's acclaimed collection of specimens is an excellent set of dinosaur fossils, including one which is the...
Address: 19 Fengfu Hutong, Dengshikou Xijie, Dongcheng District,Beijing
Description: Lao She was the pen name of the writer Shu Qingchun (1899-1966), an enormously influential critic of the decadence and corruption of pre-revolutionary China who is best remembered in the West for his novel Luot...
Address: 9 Fuxing Lu,Fuxingmenwai, Xicheng District,Beijing
Description: The Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution is on the western side of the city south of Yuyuantan Park (near Metro Line 1). The 60,000 square meters area is comprised of artifacts and articles detail...
Address: northwest of Xiguanhuandao,Changping District,Beijing
Description: Ming Huang Wax Palace is one of the largest Wax Museums in the world. It is located close to the north side of Xi Guan Huan Dao in Chang Ping County. With advanced equipment in acoustics, optics and electronics...
Address: 1 Wusi Dajie, Dongcheng District,Beijing
Description: The National Art Museum of China is the largest art museum in China. The museum has collected more than 100,000 modern and traditional folk art masterpieces, paintings, canvases, prints, sculptures, Chinese New...
Address: Hegezhuang Village, Cuigezhuang Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Description: The Red Brick Museum of Contemporary Art is a folk-based, non-profit art museum focused on the collection, research and exhibition of contemporary world and Chinese art, which strives to promote the exchange an...
Address: 2 Dongbiao Hutong, Dongcheng District,Beijing
Description: The area near the Ancient Beijing Observatory was the site for astronomical observations during the Yuan dynasty. The rooftop Ancient Observatory now displays a collection of beautifully-wrought pre-telescopic ...
Address: Beijing Botanic Garden, west of Sleeping Buddha Temple, Fragrant ...
Description: Bees should not only have more museums dedicated to them, but churches and altars too! Though most of us sadly only associate the little creatures with honey, bees actually play a critical role in the world’s ...
Address: 13-15 Guozijian Jie, Dongcheng District,Beijing
Description: The Confucius Temple and Guozijian (the Imperial College) in Beijing were first built during the Yuan Dynasty, and followed the ancient architectural rule ''temple on the left and school on the right.'' The Con...
Address: 46 Houhai Beiheyan, Xicheng District,Beijing
Description: On the north shore of Houhai lake is a Qing Dynasty-era estate set in a beautiful formal garden that served as the residence of comrade Soong Ching Ling, wife of the founder of modern China, Dr. Sun Yatsen. Aft...
Address: 101 Wanpingcheng Neijie,Lugouqiao, Fengtai District,Beijing
Description: On July 7 1937, the long-smoldering conflict between Chinese troops and invading Japanese forces flared into battle at Luguo Bridge (also known as Marco Polo Bridge) south of Beijing. This event, often referred...
Address: East side of Tian'anmen Square, 16 Dongchanganjie, Dongcheng ...
Description: The National Museum of China is closed for renovation and re-organization. It will re-open in 2010....
Address: Dashanzi art district,4 Jiuxianqiao Lu,Chaoyang District,Beijing
Description: Opening on 5th November 2007, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) is situated in a 8,000m2 Bauhaus styled factory building in the Dashanzi Art District in Beijing. Aiming to be China's most comprehens...
Address: Pangge Zhuang Town, Daxing District, Beijing
Description: That’s right, Beijing has a museum especially dedicated to the watermelon. Located within the Watermelon Research Institute (watermelons are very interesting to research it seems) in China’s watermelon capita...