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New Capital Museum(Beijing Capital Museum)
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 Beijing's new Capital Museum is now open to the public, located on Fuxingmenwai Dajie, the western extension of Beijing's Chang'an Jie.The museum is a five-storey building allowing for a maximum of 13 concurrent exhibitions, which can be viewed in about 5 hours at the price of 20 yuan (US$2.50) per visitor. It tellss the story of ancient Beijing, which has served as a capital city for more than 850 years and the Chinese capital, more or less, since the mid-17th century. It is expected to receive as many as 2,000 visitors per day.The Capital Museum is second only to China National Museum in terms of size.It will provide an English language city museum map and currently gives English-language museum brochures. Some information will be provided in Japanese. It also has other useful services such as a free cloak desk and a well-stocked museum shop. The original museum was situated in the Confucius Temple on Guozijian Street.it was founded as early as 1981. but it was not convenient due to its location within the ancient temple. Actually it functioned primarily as a warehouse of relics. It was temporarily closed last year when its collection was moved to the new 60,000-square-metre building, located near the Muxidi subway station exit on Line 1, which runs under Chang'an Avenue. Address: No. 3, Guozijian Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing. Telephone: 010-64012118 Entrance Ticket: 10 Yuan (US$1.2) Opening time: 08:30-16:30, Closed on Monday. Bus route: Bus Nos. 13, 116, 113 or by underground railway, and get off at the Yong Hegong station; bus 104, 108 and get off at Andingmen stop. |
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