Beijing Art Museum

Beijing Art Museum is housed in the Wanshou (Longevity) Temple on Suzhou Street. West of Purple Bamboo Park. Founded in April 1985, Beijing Art Museum is a comprehensive museum with the aim of preserving , studying and developing the Chinese cultural heritage. Its activities involve collections and exhibitions.

Beijing Art Museum has collected and preserved the precious historical relics such as bronze and jade articles of Shang and Zhou Dynasties (17th-3th centuries B.C), and the ancient art treasures as potteries, porcelains, enamels, carved lacquer ware, ivory carving ,wood carving, etc of the past dynasties.

The Beijing Art Museum undertakes to study in depth the ancient and traditional art of China and the rest of the world so as to raise the cultural level of the whole nation, cultivate the taste of the people.

At the same time , we shall also provide a venue where those pioneers who, in this new historical era,can bring their talents into full play; and to provide a favourable enviorment in which the art zealots from all walks of life can study and appreciate works of art.