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Art & Culture
Beijing has numerous museums offering fascinating information and best
works of art of the Nation. For kids, China Science, technology… The complete
collection of the Beijing
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with a rich collection of some 13,000 works
covering a wide variety of genres and styles from ancient to present, China to
western countries, and all art fields, including representative works of maestros,
contemporary artists, as well as fine students since the foundation of the
Academy.
Address：No.8 Hua Jia Di Nan St.,
Chao Yang District, Beijing, P. R. China
CAFA Art
Museum History
Paintings from the Song dynasty to modern
times, including such greats as Xu Beihong, Zhang Daqian, Fu Baoshi, Li Kuchan,
Wu Guanzhong and Huang Zhou. The museum also hosts fine arts events and
lectures throughout the year.
Address:1 Liulitun, Chaoyang District 朝阳区六里屯北里1号
Exhibits include animatronic dinosaurs, fossils,
a rusting aquarium and an enormous taxidermy collection. Free.
Address: 126 Tianqiao
Nandajie (near the west gate of Temple of Heaven), Chongwen District崇文区天桥南大街126号
This is a four-story building meant for
tourists about Beijing’s urban history and their
plans for the future that is smack dab in the middle of China’s government area and
historical sites.
Address: 20 Qianmen Dongdajie (just east
of the old railroad station), Chongwen District崇文区前门东大街20号
China's first National cultural institutions for world art
collection, exhibition.
Address: 9A Fuxing Lu, Haidian District 海淀区复兴路甲9号
This is a contemporary complex with a number of cinemas as well as the museum which is housed over four floors. It has about 20 different rooms which take you through a cinematic journey, historically and by genre, including replica sets, waxworks of famous stars, and technical apparatus.
Address: 9 Nanying Lu, Chaoyang District 朝阳区南影路9号
The museum is an ancient style building with two floors. The acreage of its
exhibition hall is 150 square meters. Guanfu
Classic Art
Museum is aimed to carry forward the brilliant nationality
culture, display China
old-aged civilization.
Address: B1/F, Huazhi Office Bldg,
Nanzhugan Hutong, Nan Xiaojie, Chaoyangmennei, Chaoyang District 朝阳区朝阳门内南小街南竹竿胡同华智商务大厦地下1层
Imperial City Art Museum 皇城艺术馆
Adjacent to the imperial palace, it connects the
exterior and interior cities. Inside the imperial city, there are departments,
palaces, temples, warehouses and gardens. The defense and service functions are
perfect in the city. The Tian'anmen Gate Tower, Beihai Park, Jingshan Hill,
Imperial Ancestral Temple (now the Working People's Cultural Palace), Altar to
the god of the land and grain (now the Zhongshan Park) and Pudu Temple are all
situated inside the imperial city.
Address: 9 Changpuheyan, Dongcheng
District 东城区菖蒲河沿9号
Inside-out Art Museum 中间微型美术馆
The smallest museum, may be.
Address: 65 Xingshikou Lu, Haidian
District 海淀区杏石口路65号
Collections of the museum are Chinese
paintings and calligraphies, including famous works of masters in ancient and
modern times as well as cultural relics in different dynasties. Meanwhile,
ink-and-wash portrait exhibition, oriental oil on canvas, Sculpture Park,
Classic European furniture, stone exhibition and Youth Education Site became
the major elements of the museum. Moreover, the museum collects a
lot of the cultural heritages of Beijing Olympics after the year of 2008.
Address: Inside Chaoyang Park, near West
Gate, 1 Nongzhan Nanlu, Chaoyang District 朝阳区农展南路1号，朝阳公园西门内
Kuai Xue Hall Calligraphy Museum 快雪堂书法博物馆
The Kuai Xue Hall contains 81 stone tablets
engraved with the writings of calligraphy masters explaining the peculiar
beauty of this refined art. Children might like the gift shop where they can try
their hand at brush and paper with local artists, or of course purchase their
own personalized chop.Free.
Address: North side of the Lake, Beihai Park, 1 Wenjin
Jie, Xicheng District 西城区文津街1号北海公园内
Laojia Art Museum 老甲艺术馆
Sits approximately 18km from Desheng Gate and is located
centrally to Beijing, with Huilongguan to the west, Pingxi Royal Mansion to the
north and Lishui Bridge to the south. Laojia Art Museum
has a total area of 3000m2,
with the gallery hall occupying 400m2.
The museum is a gracefully constructed rectangle. The entrance is marked with
four stone pillars, joined by a 100m2
engraving. The engraving is inspired by "Unity Is Strength", a
representative of Laojia's work, and prepares visitors for the quality and
atmosphere of what awaits them in the gallery hail. The main building is
surrounded by a lawn, flower bed, rare stones and sculptures, and an
eye-catching lotus pond, all complementary of a style that is classic and
without pretension, warm, pithy and natural. The style follows that of the art
works and paintings shown in the museum.
Address: Huoying (opposite New Oriental School),
Changping District 昌平区霍营
National Art Museum of China 中国美术馆
The museum houses more than 100,000 pieces
of various collections, most of which are creations around the establishment of
new China.
Some collections are masterpieces from the late Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty
and the early Republic of China. Most collections are modern and contemporary
works, including masterpieces of renowned contemporary Chinese artists,
award-winning works from major art exhibitions, and various folk works.
Included are such painters as Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo, Huang Binhong, Qi
Baishi, Xu Beihong, Jiang Zhaohe, Situ Qiao, Li Keran, Wu Zuoren, Ye Qianyu,
Luo Gongliu and Wu Guanzhong. The museum also collects hundreds of foreign
artistic works. German collectors Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ludwig donated 117 pieces
of foreign works in 1999, including four oil paintings by Picasso.
Address: 1 Wusi Dajie, Dongcheng District 东城区五四大街1号
National Museum of Modern Chinese
Literature 中国现代文学馆
This large and
rather forbidding state institution offers dry exhibitions but is also the
venue to catch great lectures (in Chinese) from some of China's leading
intellectuals.
Address: 45 Wenxueguan Lu, Shaoyaoju, Chaoyang District 朝阳区芍药居文学馆路45号
Si Shang Art Museum 寺上美术馆
cultural development in Shunyi District, with
art museum and contemporary art education, providing the art lovers a place to
communicate with artists and to acquire artworks with reasonable price, and
becoming an art museum with international influence.
Address: Huosi Lu Dong, Zhangxizhuang, Shunyi District 顺义区张喜庄火寺路东寺上美术馆
Song Tang Zhai Museum of Traditional
Chinese Folk Carving松堂斋民间雕刻博物馆
A “hidden” museum in Beijing, private carving museum, people said
that many favorites are picked up in hutongs!
Address: Yard 3, Guozijian, Dongcheng District 东城区国子监3号院
The Beijing Museum of Visual Art 视觉经典美术馆
Non-profit nature Museum
of Fine Arts, located in the north
side of downtown East Chang'an
Avenue in Beijing.
It’s a small multifunctional art exhibition with financial collection,
exchange, research and popularization of aesthetic education.
Address: 32 Beijigesantiao (just north of Exit A, Dongdan
Subway station), Dongdan, Dongcheng District
东城区东城区东单北极阁三条32号
Yong He Art Museum 雍和美术馆
The Yonghe Art Museum is located in Gehua
Building, 13th floor, with 1,800 square meters exhibition hall and about 2,800
square meters of open platform, and has about 1000 square meters exhibition
hall at the first floor where can hold a variety of large-scale activities
organized exhibitions, forums and screenings.
Address: 13/F, Gehua Tower, 1 Qinglong Hutong, Dongcheng
District 东城区青龙胡同1号歌华大厦13层
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