Beijing World Art Museum is a national institution that encourages foreign art research and collects exhibits. This non-profit organization works in conjunction with art museums and educational institutions around the world in a bid to promote art education, cultural communication and to educate local people on human civilization and its progress. This museum plays a major role in cross cultural communication and serves as a platform where world art is displayed.
This museum has held many high profile international exhibitions and is doing a fantastic job of bringing world art to Beijing. On your trip to Beijing, make sure you visit this impressive museum that has a hi-tech digital gallery and art centre.
Beijing World Art Museum has an array of modern display equipment and hi-tech systems that are at par with the best in the world. Skillfully combining scientific technology and art, the museum enables visitors to appreciate amazing artistic works and uses the digital image technique to provide a visual shock.
After being displayed in Japan and US, unprecedented archaeological discoveries and the best national artistic works were displayed at a centralized “Centurial National Treasure Display” exhibition here. Other popular specific displays include relics and exhibits from the Mayan civilization. Beijing World Art Museum will also continue displaying through its temporary exhibitions excellent traditional as well as contemporary artistic works from other famous museums from around the world.

Constructed in 1958 on Beijing’s Chang’an Avenue, the Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution is a majestic museum that has been open to the public since 1960. This museum is especially dedicated to military history of the country. Covering an area of 93,700 square meter, the museum is also the largest in China.
The total built up area of 136,000 sq m, includes the exhibition area and the Boxing Mansion that houses the Hall of Military Science and Technology. The museum building houses a tall seven storied main building that is 94.7m high and two four storied wings. The main building features a gilded emblem of the Chinese PLA or People’s Liberation Army. This emblem measures six meters in diameter.
Chairman Mao Zedong’s gilded calligraphy title is featured over a giant bronze plaque that hangs over the museum’s main gate. There are two white marble sculptures on both sides of the front gate. On one side, you will find sculptures of a man and woman militia fighters and on the other a group of three soldiers from the air forces, marine and land.
At this museum, you will find a stunning array of over 140,000 military artifacts, some of them dating back to ancient times. You will also find on display few military artworks and special Chinese People’s Revolutionary war related artifacts.

The Capital Art Museum is located in the Xicheng District. The museum’s collection counts for more than 200,000 cultural relics from all Chinese Dynasties, as well as from other Asian cultures. The most interesting collections representing ancient culture are the ones of Chinaware, calligraphy and jade ware. The building itself is also of great interest, with its shape replicating city walls and towers of ancient China. The museum can accommodate 2000 visitors daily.

The focal point in Beijing where people from all nationalities come together for cultural exchange is the Cultural Palace of Minorities. This palace is located on Chang’an Street and is frequented by people of diverse nationalities and cultures living in China.
This 13 storied building spans an area of 30,000 square meters and has two wings on either side of the central hall. Extensive collection displayed here includes costumes, scripts and handicrafts of different sects of minority people such as Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, Yunnan, Ningxia, Guangxi and Ghizhou.
You will find a display of materials and artifacts related to at least 56 ethnic minorities in China. Artifacts include a stunning array of traditional clothes, documents, scriptures, treaties, laws, books and religious artifacts.
Cultural Palace of Minorities also displays a variety of historical relics such as armors used during the reign of Yuan dynasty, musical instruments used during the Tang dynasty, Qing dynasty weapons and items from Western Xia.
Periodical exhibitions are held in diverse topics such as ancient costumes, scripts and bronze drums. For example, if an exhibition is held on the Guizhou’s Dong minority, boys and girls from this sect perform, play instruments and dance to transport the audience right back to the deep mountain passes where they live.
The exhibitions also showcase local architecture of the people using architectural site models. Visit the Cultural Palace of Minorities if you wish to enjoy a wonderful journey and learn about every single ethnic minority in China.

Enjoying the distinction of being the largest museum in China, The Palace Museum is located at the centre of the city of Beijing. It is also referred to as the “Purple” Forbidden City in Chinese and was a royal palace for at least twenty four emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Spanning an area of 720,000 square meters, the museum contains a number of ancient halls grouped architecturally.
The Forbidden City has more than 9000 rooms and 70 halls of various sizes. Architecturally, the buildings are constructed in such a manner that they line up precisely and look completely imposing reflecting the unique Chinese architectural style.

The Palace Museum or Forbidden City is a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site since 1987. At least eight million tourists visit this museum every year to view the vast gardens, extensive collection of treasures and interesting pavilions.

The Palace Museum was built by Yongle of Ming Dynasty between 1406 and 1420 when he shifted the capital to Beijing from Nanjing. 24 Ming and Qing emperors lived here till the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911.

The Palace Museum was opened to the public in 1925 displaying a well organized exhibit that featured over a million treasures. You can take the help of audio guides available at the Meridian Gate to ensure that you do not miss out any part of this exciting palace.

If you are an art lover, you must not miss a visit to the National Art Museum of China on your trip to Beijing. This museum has an extensive display of contemporary and modern art collections.
Title board of the museum was inscribed in Chinese language by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1963. Chinese ethnic architecture is portrayed by the style featured in the main building that is surrounded by pavilions and corridors. The roof is covered with yellow glazed tiles.
National Art Museum of China spans an area of 18,000 square meters. The five storied building has a total of 17 exhibition halls. Visitors from around the world flock this museum to view the vast collection. Some of the prominent collections here include masterpieces from the early Republic of China, the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.
You will also find contemporary and modern masterpieces that include award winning works from other art exhibitions, works or renowned Chinese artists and folk art. Works of famous painters such as Wu Changshuo, Ren Bonian, Xu Beihong, Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong, Wu Zuoren, Li Keran, Situ Qiao, Jiang Zhaohe and Wu Guanzhong are displayed here apart from a variety of artistic works by foreign artists. Do not miss the four Picasso’s oil paintings. Enjoy a visit to this museum that stands in all its glory offering aesthetic education to the public.