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• Beijing Arts & Crafts Museum
• Beijing Dabaotai Xi Han Dynasty Tomb Museum
• Beijing Imperial City Art Gallery (Chinese version)
• Beijing Local Opera Museum
• Beijing Natural History Museum (Chinese version)
• Beijing Police Museum
• Beijing Stone Inscription Museum
• Beijing Tap-water Museum
• Beijing Traditional Opera Museum
• Beijing Viewing Stone Museum
• Big Bell Temple (Da Zhong Si)
• Capital Museum China (Chinese version)
• Chengdu Yongling Museum (Chinese version)
• China Agriculture Museum
• China Art & Craft Gallery
• China Aviation Museum
• China Museums of Telecommunications
• China National Museum
• China National Museum of Fine Art (With brief English introduction)
• China Science and Technology Museum
• China Shoes Museum (Chinese version)
• Chinese Art Gallery (Chinese version)
• Former Residence of Mei Lanfang
• Former Residence of Soong Ching Ling
• Geological Museum of China
• Guangzhou Museum of Art
• Henan Museum
• Huangbinhong Art Museum (Chinese version)
• Memorial to Prime Minister Wen Tianxiang
• Jiangsu Art Museum (Chinese version)
• Museum of Ancient Pottery Civilization
• Museum of Dabaotai Han Tomb
• National Museum of Chinese History
• The Palace Museum (Forbidden City)
• Red Crag Memorial Museum: This museum in Hongyan (Red Crag) Village near the Hualong Bridge commemorates the revolutionary activities of the Communists before national liberation in 1949. It was the office of the Eighth Route Army in Chongqing form 1939 to 1946. Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu, Ye Jianying, and other revolutionary leaders once had their residences here. Mao Zedong also lived here during the Communist-Kuomintang negotiations in Chongqing in 1945. The relics and photographs on display at the exhibition hall reflect the revolutionary struggles of the Chinese Communists during that period. Address: No.52, Hongyan Village, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, China.
• Rongbaozhai Art Gallery (Chinese version only, English and Japanese versions will be available soon)
• Sanxingdui Museum
• Shanghai Art Museum
• Tianjin Natural History Museum (Chinese version)
• Xi'an Banpo Museum (Chinese version)
• Yangguan Museum - Letter from Yangguan: a lone artist with a big heart
• A Private Folk Carving Museum (Beijing) - Situated on Liulichang, Beijing's antique street is the architecturally important Songtangzhai Folk Carving Museum. Privately owned by manager Li Songtang's family, this gallery is a two-story building from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and is the best-preserved architecture in the Liulichang area.
• Zhan Tianyou Museum: The Zhan Tianyou Museum at Badaling stands at the highest point along the rail line between Beijing and Zhangjiakou. Two stories are devoted to the life and contributions of Zhan Tianyou (1861-1919), a prominent railway engineer in Chinese history. Zhan helped build the first Chinese constructed railroad -- the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Line from 1905 to 1909. He designed a double-pronged rail system and employed the "shaft construction method" to excavate tunnels. His contributions to railroad construction on a particularly tricky section of the line have inspired engineers and workers ever since. Add: Badaling Scenic Spot, Yanqing County, Beijing, China.

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Beijing;s Museum & Galleries - a list of over 70 museums in Beijing

New Beijing Museum Puts on Maiden Show
Xinhua News, Dec. 17, 2005 - The new Beijing Museum, built with investment of 1.23-billion-yuan (US$152 million) reopened on a trial basis Friday, displaying various antiques as well as the old folk culture of Beijing. The museum, which focuses on life in Beijing in bygone days, covers an area of 63,390 square meters, with a 2,000-square-meter central hall. The reconstruction project lasted four years. "The new Beijing museum has 13 themed exhibition rooms displaying 5,622 items. The collection is the largest in China," said Han Yong, the curator of  the museum. According to Han, 80 percent of the rarities are being showcased for the first time in China. To make it more convenient for visitors, 1,000 computerized-navigators have been installed to give visitors introductions on the exhibited items. Information is also given in English and Japanese. Other languages will be added in the future. The venue is expected to receive 2,000 visitors daily and tickets will be 20 yuan (US$2.5) each for the trial operational period.

New Beijing Museum Puts on Maiden Show
Xinhua News, Dec. 17, 2005 - The new Beijing Museum, built with investment of 1.23-billion-yuan (US$152 million) reopened on a trial basis Friday, displaying various antiques as well as the old folk culture of Beijing. The museum, which focuses on life in Beijing in bygone days, covers an area of 63,390 square meters, with a 2,000-square-meter central hall. The reconstruction project lasted four years. "The new Beijing museum has 13 themed exhibition rooms displaying 5,622 items. The collection is the largest in China," said Han Yong, the curator of the museum. According to Han, 80 percent of the rarities are being showcased for the first time in China. To make it more convenient for visitors, 1,000 computerized-navigators have been installed to give visitors introductions on the exhibited items. Information is also given in English and Japanese. Other languages will be added in the future. The venue is expected to receive 2,000 visitors daily and tickets will be 20 yuan (US$2.5) each for the trial operational period.

Heyuan Museum Listed in Guinness World Records
Xinhua News, Feb. 13, 2005 - A museum in south China's Guangdong Province has earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records with its 10,008 dinosaur egg fossils, the largest collection in the world. An official in charge of cultural affairs confirmed that the city museum of Heyuan, in the northern part of Guangdong, has entered the world-famous record book. (full coverage)

New Museum Showcases Shanxi Culture

Xinhua News Agency Jan. 10, 2005 - A local resident views an ancient wine container dating back to ancient China's Shang Dynasty (1,600 BC-1,100 BC) in the newly-built Shanxi Museum in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, Jan. 8, 2005. 316 million RMB yuan (US$38.26 million) has been invested to build the museum. More than 4,000 pieces of cultural relics are displayed in the 10,000-square-meter museum to showcase the province's rich culture.

Peking Man Skull on Display
Xinhua News Agency Oct. 1, 2004) - The 500,000 year-old Peking Man skull went on display Thursday at the Zhoukoudian Peking Man Museum, southwest of Beijing. The skull is one of the only three in China, according to the Beijing News. Sources with the museum said they would transfer the bone from the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Thursday, where it has been preserved. The exhibition from September 30 to October 14 was to let Beijing citizens have a better understanding of Peking Man, said Yang Haifeng, curator of the museum. Chinese archaeologists unearthed the skull in 1929 at Zhoukoudian, about 50 km southwest of downtown Beijing. At the time, the discovery stunned the world. China has since discovered five other complete Peking Man skulls. Three were lost during World War II and the other two discovered in 1996. According to scientists' research, the 1966 skulls together with the 1930s skull, belong to the same Peking Man, who was middle-aged and has physiological characteristics of modern people. To ensure its safety, the museum has insured 4.5 million RMB yuan (US$540,000) on the bone, said Yang. "The bone is very precious and we will ask police to transport it while two routes have been prepared to prevent potential troubles." said Yang. The museum had exhibited the other of the two existent skull-- a frontal bone-- in 2003 under strict protection.

Museum Shows Vintage Locomotives
China Daily, Aug. 30, 2004 - The long-awaited Shanghai Railway Museum, with locomotives rarely seen worldwide, opened over the weekend to attract train lovers, especially kids who are interested in train technology...

Exhibition Shows Beijing's Architectural History
Xinhua News Agency September 10, 2004 - An exhibition featuring old Beijing architecture is expected to help reinforce residents' desire to protect cultural relics in the capital city. The weeklong exhibition, which opened on Tuesday in Beijing, includes three major parts: "rebuilding the imperial capital," "recovering the metropolis built in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)" and "repairing the disappeared city gates and walls."

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