Art and Culture

The Old Palace On the site of the Beijing Summer Palace once stood an older imperial palace which was built early on by the emperors of the ...

The Beijing Opera The Beijing opera, also known as Peking opera, is considered to be among the cultural treasures of China.  It first came to be during ...

The Capital Museum, located in the Confucius Temple on Guozijian Street, Dongcheng District, was built in 1953 but officially opened in 1981. The Capital Museum holds ...

Built in 1951, the Natural History Museum is the largest of its kind in China, located in southern Beijing on the western edge of the Temple of Heaven. ...

The Xu Beihong Museum reveals the art of the famous artist Xu Beihong (1895- 1953). Xu studied art in France and when he returned to China became an educator and ...

Wan Fung Art Gallery is a fine arts organization that was founded in 1986 in order to promote the Chinese art and culture by exhibiting the masterpieces of famous contemporary ...