The National Museum of China

The National Museum of China was founded in 1912, and up to now it has a history of more than 100 years. Through more than 100 years of development, it has accumulated profound historical and cultural heritage, already becoming a world-level museum. It keeps the records of Chinese civilization with a history of more than 5000 years, and presents the nation’s historical and cultural arts, and glorious achievements of China’s social development. It is the spiritual homeland to Chinese people to transmit history and open up the future. Meanwhile, the museum is also an important window for dialogues between the Chinese civilization and the world civilization, and a grand palace that displays the entire human civilization.

Permanent Exhibitions

The Road to Rejuvenation

The Chinese Ancient Art of Bronze Wares

Art of Ancient Buddha Statues in China

Exhibits of Ancient China

The Coin of Ancient China

Historical Witness of Friendly Exchanges—Donated Gifts Show of Diplomatic Activities of the Party and State Leaders

African Sculpture Art Collections Exhibition in the National Museum of China

Address: No.16 Chang’an Avenue, East Tian’anmen Square, Dongcheng District, Beijing

Postcode: 100006

Bus Route:

East Tian’anmen: 1, 120, 126, 2, 52, 59, 728, 82, 90, 99, Special Line 1 and Special Line 2

East Tian’anmen Square: 120, 126, 2, 22, 5, Special Line 1 and Special Line 2

East Qianmen: 20, 44, 673, 729, 8, 9 and Te 2

Qianmen: 120, 126, 17, 20, 22, 301, 48, 5, 59, 66, 67, 69, 71, 723, 729, 8, 82, 93, Express 1, Te 11, Te 4, Te 7, Special Line 1 and Special Line 2

Subway route:

Subway line 1: get off at Tian’anmen East Station, and check out at Exit C (southeast) or Exit D (southwest)

Subway line 2: get off at Qianmen Station, and check out at Exit A (northeast) or Exit B (southeast)

Non-motor Parking:

There are two formal sites for non-motor parking in Tian’anmen District, outside the red wall of the east side of Working People’s Cultural Palace and outside the red wall of the west side of Zhongshan Park. Both of them are provided with visible parking signs.

Parking for automobiles

Since the underground parking lot of the National Museum of China hasn’t been opened to the public, visitors are recommended to arrive here by bus. If you wish to choose to drive, you can consider parking your car in the nearby parking lot.

Reservation Service

Group visitors (over 20) need to book free visiting tickets by telephone within 7 days in advance, and take the unit certification letter to pick up tickets in the ticket center in the south of the west gate on the day of visit, and then visitors can enter the museum from the west gate.

Group Reservation Telephone: 010-65116400(9:00-16:00)

Visitor Consultation Telephone: 010-65116188(9:00-16:00)

The National Museum of China advocates the orderly method of booking in advance and visiting later. All visitors having successfully booked tickets via website, short message and telephone are guaranteed to get reserved and free tickets on that day. Visitors are allowed to enter the museum quickly from the west gate after picking up free tickets in the ticket center in the south of the west gate.

On considering the fact that part of visitors to Tian’anmen Square may not book the free visiting tickets for the National Museum of China in advance, we adopt “people- oriented” service concept, and provide the service of queuing for tickets. Fragmented visitors can pick up free visiting tickets with valid permits by queuing in the ticket center in the west gate during the opening time (9:00-15:30) (the valid permits include second-generation ID card, non-print temporary ID card, senior card, household register, residence certification, social security card, disability permit, officer card, soldiers card, passport, a pass into Hong Kong and Macao, MTPs, driving license). It should be noted that visitors with second-generation ID card should get their tickets in the ticket center in the north of the west gate, and visitors with other valid permits should get their tickets in the ticket center in the south of the west gate. Since the time for queuing may be a little longer, the service of picking up tickets on the spot will be stopped temporarily when the number of visitors in the exhibition hall reaches its accommodation.