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Museums

Songtang
BEISANHUAN ZHONG LU 3
Renmin Hepingxiqiao Museum
University BEISANHUAN ZHONG LU
XUE YUAN NAN LU XIZHIMEN BEIDAJIE Jishuitan Yonghe MAP F1 • 3 Guozijian Jie
Gong
DONG
Beijing North DESHENG MEN DONG DAJIE ZHI MEN WAI • Subway: Yonghe Gong
• Open 8:30am–6pm
XIZHIMEN WAI DAJIE Shichahai XIEJIE daily • Adm
Chegong XISI BEI DAJIE DI'AN MEN XI DAJIE YONGHE GONG DAJIE GONGREN
Zhuang Dongsishitiao A Cultural Revolution
TIYUCHANG BEI LU
FUCHENG MEN NAN DAJIE Tian'an Men wanted to preserve
FUCHENG MEN WAI DAJIE WENJIN JIE CHAOYANG MEN NEI DAJIE survivor, Li Songtang
West
political and economic
FUXING LU FUXING MEN XI CHANG'AN Wangfujing ancient China from both
WAI DAJIE JIE JIANGUO MEN NEI DAJIE
Military Muxidi Xuanwu Qian Men QIAN MEN Beijing destruction. Housed in
Museum Men DONG DAJIE Ciqikou
Zhushikou a 200-year-old hutong
ZHUSHIKOU
GUANG'AN MEN NEI DAJIE GUANGQU MEN NEI DAJIE
XI DAJIE Qiaowan courtyard home, this
0 km 2 DAJIE
Tian Tan Dong Men museum displays stone
0 miles 2 and wood carvings, plus
QIAN MEN
a number of artifacts
National Museum of
1 from several dynasties.
China
Poly Art Museum
What the British Museum is to 4
London, the National Museum of MAP G2 • Floor 9, New Poly
China is to Beijing. Dedicated to Plaza, 1 Chaoyang Men Bei Dajie,
Chinese history and arts, it Dongcheng District • 6500 8177 • Open
documents the evolution of Chinese 9:30am–4:30pm Mon–Sat • Adm
civilization through the country’s This museum in a central office
most important historic and cultural block is cool, quiet, and packed
artifacts. The museum hosts two with ancient Chinese art.
permanent and numerous temporary
Imperial City Art
exhibitions of art, history, and 5
archaeology (see p70). Museum
Call by this museum near the
Forbidden City to see all the bits of
imperial Beijing that didn’t survive.
The walls and gates that once
encircled the city, along with dozens
of vanished temples, are revisited
through a great many maps, models,
and photographs (see p70).
Beijing Police Museum
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MAP M6 • 36 Dong Jiao Min
Xiang • 8522 5018 • Subway: Qian Men
• Open 9am–4pm Tue–Sun • Adm
In the 19th-century former City Bank
of New York, this surprisingly fun
Natural History Museum museum has displays on themes
such as the suppression of drug
Natural History Museum
2 dealers and counter-revolutionaries.
Famed police dog Feisheng is stuffed
There are around 5,000
specimens on display, including and mounted and there are live trans-
a fine collection of models and missions from a traffic camera. An
skeletons of dinosaurs, and other interactive screen poses questions
prehistoric creatures (see p77). and correct answers win prizes.
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