Royal City Art Museum

Beijing Huangcheng Art Museum

synonym

Huangcheng Art Museum generally refers to Beijing Huangcheng Art Museum

Located in the Changpu River Park on the east side of Tiananmen Square, Beijing Imperial City Art Museum aims to study the history of Ming and Qing Dynasties, carry forward Chinese traditional culture, promote Chinese classic art, and promote world cultural exchanges. It integrates the functions of researching, exploring, displaying, disseminating the history and culture of Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing, collecting Chinese historical relics, and displaying world art works It is a state-owned comprehensive museum.

Introduction to the library

As a key project of Beijing municipal government and an important part of the protection of Beijing's Imperial City in Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Imperial City Art Museum began to be built in early 2002, and the main building was completed in September of the same year. In October 2002, Comrade Jiang Zemin, then general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the people's Republic of China and chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected the Huangcheng Art Museum in preparation and personally inscribed the name of the museum. On June 20, 2003, the Imperial City Museum of art held a grand opening ceremony, officially opening to the outside world.

Since its opening, the Imperial City Museum of art has hosted many historical and cultural theme exhibitions, such as the exhibition of imperial city customs, the exhibition of historical and cultural pictures of Beijing, Picasso Forbidden City Picasso Beijing Art Exhibition and Picasso fashion art season, the retrospective exhibition of Jean Michel Basquet's paper works, and 400 years of Italian painting Many large-scale international cultural exchange exhibitions, such as the Great Renaissance masters' original works exhibition in Dali, have received more than 300000 visitors at home and abroad, including leaders at all levels, experts from all walks of life and international friends. They have compiled a variety of books, which have played a certain role in filling the academic gap of domestic imperial city research, carrying forward the national spirit, spreading Beijing culture, and displaying world classic art effect.

It opened to the outside world in 2003. Taking the history and culture of the Imperial City as the theme, it comprehensively displays the local government offices, temples, hutongs, imperial warehouses, gardens and other customs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing. The shape of the art museum is traditional residential buildings, with a construction area of 4500 square meters and an exhibition area of 2500 square meters. The basic exhibition is "imperial city culture and customs Exhibition", which takes the historical relics of Ming and Qing Dynasties as the main line. Through the display of cultural relics and materials, it reproduces the imperial city culture of the past, such as architecture, temple, imperial treasury, water system, guard, drama, breeding, manufacturing, marketplace, etc. The exhibition items include "architecture and regulation", "temple culture of the imperial city", "office and Hutong of the imperial city", "clothing", "water system of the imperial city", "imperial city guard", "tribute", "breeding culture of the Imperial City (mainly displaying" pigeon raising "series)" and "manufacturing culture of the Imperial City (furniture series)". The exhibits include the picture scroll of Kangxi's southern tour, the picture scroll of Guangxu's wedding archives collected by zhangyisi, jade inscriptions of past dynasties, golden chamber with royal archives, classical furniture of Ming and Qing Dynasties and ornamental pigeons. The collection includes silver blue telescope, transparent enamel brocade bottle, copper gold-plated hollow Ruyi, enamel bat longevity pattern box, enamel lucky gourd bottle, copper gold-plated Japanese horn box, etc. The Museum of art has held exhibitions such as the historical and cultural picture exhibition of old Beijing city and Picasso Art Exhibition of the Forbidden City.

Mission of the library

Explore and study the culture of Beijing Imperial City, and constantly fill the academic gap of domestic imperial city;

Carry forward and spread the city wall culture of Beijing, and contribute to the construction of Beijing as an international metropolis;

Collect and collect Chinese historical relics and world art works for research, exhibition and education;

Plan international level exhibitions, introduce art and culture from all over the world to Beijing, and create a multi-cultural environment in Beijing;

Promote international cultural and artistic exchanges through various exhibitions and activities;

Organize and promote the creative achievements of Chinese local artists;

Work closely with all kinds of universities, middle schools, primary schools and educational institutions at home and abroad to carry out social education for students;

Establish partnership with all kinds of art institutions, organize all kinds of art activities, and recommend different fields and levels of art to the public;

Ideal of Library

By collecting historical relics, collecting fine arts, carrying out academic activities, holding exhibitions, popularizing cultural education, and conducting cultural exchanges, we can protect the cultural heritage of Ming and Qing imperial cities, enhance the public's ability to appreciate culture and art, expand the public's cultural vision, promote Chinese history and culture, promote cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, and promote the development of China's cultural and creative industries National spirit and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Department setup

Information Center

General business department

Social Education Department

Storage

Exhibition Department

office

Tour guide

Opening Hours

10: 00-17:30 (stop entering) closing day: no closing day except Spring Festival, special political activities and Exhibition adjustment (see the notice for details)

Ticketing information

Free Admission

bus line

Take No.1, No.2, No.4, No.10, No.20, No.37, No.52, No.59, No.120, no.728, no.802, No.1 Tiananmen station and get off at Tiananmen east station.

Address: No.9, Changpu riverside, Dongcheng District, Beijing

Longitude: 116.40219527116

Latitude: 39.908880162252

Tel: 010-85115114

Opening hours: 9:00-16:30