Blog Tag - Museums

"The Story of Trees": Joint Chinese and Western Art Exhibition at Dong Yue Art Museum
Live anywhere long enough, and it’s easy to find oneself a bit lost in the ordinary. You settle into a routine – a rut, more like – and you forget...
Visit Here: The Grand Canal Museum
From the arts in Dongsi, we take a trip out east to Tongzhou and shift to grand waterways at… The Beijing Grand Canal Museum (北京大运河博物馆 Běijīng Dà...
Visit Here: Dongsi Hutong Museum
From far-flung places in our Take the Subway series, we move closer to the city center for a look at a few spots that we think, while they may not be...
Visit Here: The Beijing Public Transit Hall
From far-flung places in our recent Take the Subway series, we move closer to the city center for a look at a few spots that we think, while they may...
Visit Here: The China Railway Museum, Pt. 2
From far-flung places in our recent Take the Subway series, we move closer to the city center for a look at a few spots that we think, while they may...
Experience Old Beijing Culture in a Beautiful Setting at Dongsi Hutong Museum
The interlacing hutongs and siheyuans scattered throughout Beijing are one of the most recognizable features of the capital. The gray pathways...
Bees? Eunuchs? Watermelons? 10 Weird and Quirky Beijing Museums You Have to Visit
Beijing has plenty of quirky museums that are dedicated to oddly specific areas ranging from vintage cars to the notorious baijiu. Below is our list...
Six Cosmic Places to Get Spaced Out in Beijing
“Beijing, we have liftoff!” As you probably already know, three Chinese astronauts – aka taikonauts – recently launched into outer space where they'...
Local Gem: Can You Have Food For Both Your Thought And Your Stomach At The Museum?
As we reported earlier this week, Beijing is certainly a world leader when it comes to museums. Not only is it home to a large amount of them, but it...
Although China Ranks 15th for Most Amount of Museums, Beijing Is Home to the Second-Most Visited
Earlier this year, Statista published a number of statistics sourced from UNESCO about the countries with the largest number of museums, and those...
TaoBrowser: Co-host an Exhibition With The Palace Musume At Your Home
Where can you buy that? You already know the answer: Taobao. But navigating China’s biggest e-commerce platform can be a nightmare for foreigners, so...
Sanxingdui gold mask
If you’re a super-fan of historical relics or Chinese history, you can’t have missed the latest news that precious relics were uncovered at the...
You Had Me at Space Toilet: Beijing's New Interactive Space Shuttle Exhibit
Those who missed out on space camp as a kid now have a chance to make up for it as Beijing launches a new science exhibition entitled From Here to...
A Museum Opened by a Primary School Drop-Out Filled With Antiques and... Cats?
Beijing holds a special place in the hearts of China's culture gurus, not only because of its historic title as the capital of multiple dynasties but...
Hot Clocking: Interior Design Exhibit and a Peek at a Pagoda
Have you clocked in yet? No, we’re not talking about your 9-5. The phenomenon of 打卡 dǎkǎ clocking in is how netizens refer to hitting the must-see...