Which museums are worth visiting with children during the winter vacation in Beijing?

The 2020 winter vacation for various schools in Beijing has arrived, and many students have begun to cheer. The wonderful time of resting at home for a month has also arrived, and many parents have begun to plan a series of entertainment and social activities for their children. Among the activities, traveling should be a good choice, but if children in Beijing do not travel far, what museums and exhibitions are worth visiting?

Dongcheng District: Let us understand history and life in history and nature Power

The Palace Museum, the National Museum of China, and the Beijing Museum of Nature, these three museums located in Dongcheng District, will tell children’s favorite stories from three aspects: history, humanities, and nature.

The Palace Museum

As the largest cultural IP in recent years, the Palace Museum currently has the largest collection of collections among various museums in China. According to the national museum directory published by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Palace Museum has a collection of 1,862,690 pieces/sets of cultural relics.

There are several regular exhibitions in the Forbidden City, such as the "Ancient Chinese Kiln Site Specimen Exhibition" in Yanxi Palace, the "Original Exhibition of Shoukang Palace" in Shoukang Palace, and the "Permanent Exhibition of Cining Palace Sculpture Hall" in Cining Palace. , from which we can find out the ever-changing life in the harem.

For those who like Chinese classical furniture, the "Nandaku Qing Dynasty Palace Furniture Exhibition" is located in Nandaku. More than 300 pieces of Qing Dynasty furniture are on display, focusing on the beauty of furniture from the Kang, Yong and Qian dynasties. .

Special exhibition recommendations:

Xumi Fushou: When Tashilhunpo Temple meets the Forbidden City:

This exhibition is held in the Meridian Gate Exhibition Hall. There are 280 cultural relics from the collection of the Forbidden City and Tashilhunpo Monastery, most of which are being made public for the first time. This is the first themed exhibition of Panchen Erdeni and Tashilhunpo Monastery of the 1st to 9th dynasties since the establishment of the Forbidden City. The exhibition will end on February 29th, right through the holidays.

The Great Sage’s Legacy: Zhongcui Palace Guqin Art Exhibition:

The exhibition is located in Zhongcui Palace. The entire exhibition consists of two parts: Qin and Guqin collected in the Forbidden City and the Forbidden City. There are 63 cultural relics. The title of this exhibition comes from the "Great Sage's Yiyin Qin", a guqin from the first year of Zhide in the Tang Dynasty. You can go and see it when you have time. The exhibition will end on February 29.

National Museum of China

Everyone who has read history books can find his origins in this huge national museum, whether it is Simuwu Ding or Siyang Fangzundu It's familiar. In addition to regular exhibitions, the National Museum of China currently has several interesting special exhibitions in progress. They are:

"Mountain Scenery" Confucius Culture Exhibition

Located in Beijing This exhibition in Hall 8-North 10, through 240 sets and more than 700 pieces of cultural relics, ancient books and works of art, provides us with a comprehensive and systematic display of the formation, development and inheritance history of Confucius' thoughts. This exhibition also celebrates the 2570th anniversary of the birth of Confucius. The exhibition will end on March 27th

Red Mansions Cultural Exhibition

This exhibition located in North 2 and North 3 exhibition halls brings a feast to lovers of Dream of Red Mansions. With the Red Mansion as the theme and core, through 600 pieces/sets of cultural relics and artworks, it comprehensively popularizes the Red Mansion culture and makes us more familiar with this classic work of Chinese literature.

The Legacy of Zhou Feng: Shaanxi Liujiawa Archaeological Achievements Exhibition

Before March 1, the North 16th Exhibition Hall will bring this exhibition to friends who like archeology and ancient history. , the entire exhibition will display bronze ritual instruments, chariots and horses, weapons, gold and jade wares, pottery, etc. from the Spring and Autumn Period unearthed from the "Liujiawa Site", one of the top ten newly discovered archaeological sites of the year, most of which are on display for the first time. ***A total of 300 cultural relics.

Beijing Museum of Natural History

This museum is located next to the Temple of Heaven. It is a museum that many children’s parents liked and often visited when they were young. From dinosaurs, mammals to plants, and even walking The specimens in the human body exhibition were all the places that I liked here in the past. Now you can bring your children here to watch. In addition to the regular exhibitions, there is also a beauty-related exhibition going on here.

"Flying Flowers" World Rare Butterfly Exhibition

This exhibition also displays more than 500 butterfly specimens and more than 300 pictures. Children can fully understand the mysteries of butterflies through the exhibition, and appreciate the colorful flying flowers from the butterfly world in various forms. The entire exhibition will end on March 1st. If you like it, come here during the winter vacation to take a look.

In addition, Dongcheng District also has the following exhibitions, which you can take your children to see.

China Women's and Children's Museum "Loving the Silver Wind: Silver Jewelry Collection of Southern Ethnic Minorities in Guilin Museum"

Guardian Art Center "Re-Rui - The 58th Venice International Art Biennale" China National Pavilion Touring Exhibition"

Guangyu Art Museum "Daoduoqi - Art Works Exhibition"

Xicheng District: Explore the secrets of old Beijing at the Capital Museum

Capital Museum

As Beijing’s own museum, the Capital Museum located in Xicheng District is a must-go place. Although the glory of the first expo in Beijing is overshadowed by the Forbidden City and the National Museum not far away, when you enter the hall, whether it is the regular exhibitions or the archways in the hall, you will feel the Beijing flavor.

"Ancient Capital Beijing. History and Culture"

As a permanent exhibition, it reviews the process of Beijing from the original settlement to the formation of the city through the exhibits from the perspective of history books. In addition, On the one hand, walking into the alleys and showing the customs and etiquette of old Beijing from weddings and funerals to festivals and entertainments is a must-see for every Beijinger.

Reading the City: Exploring the Central Axis of Beijing

Many people who come to the First Expo will ignore the water garden on the underground floor, but the Beijing-related exhibitions currently held here must not be Miss it, and this is an exhibition targeted at children. There are a large number of interactive experiential projects, based on the concept of reading the city, allowing visitors to understand the development and evolution of Beijing's central axis in the process of constantly asking, exploring and answering questions. Through 25 questions on 15 buildings, the Beijing's central axis runs in series from south to north.

"Travel" Zhejiang History and Culture Exhibition

If you really don’t have time to take your children to travel during the winter vacation, then go to the 3rd floor of the Beijing Expo to see this exhibition without leaving Beijing. Come and appreciate the history and humanities of Zhejiang. From the Liangzhu Culture to the Ancient Yue Kingdom, the Wuyue Kingdom, and even the 376 pieces/sets of cultural relics from the four peaks of the Southern Song Dynasty capital, you can find the splendid glory of Zhejiang's history and culture, as well as the long history of cultural evolution.

In addition to the first exhibition, the Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum in Xiannongtan in Xicheng District is worth a visit. The "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Ancient Architecture Culture Exhibition" is an exhibition worth visiting.

Chaoyang District: A treasure place for art students

Beijing Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum

If your child likes to draw and has strong artistic instincts, then Chaoyang District will Will be the first choice. The following art-related exhibitions are worth a visit.

Brightening the Flowers: Exhibition of Freehand Flower and Bird Paintings from Beijing Academy of Fine Arts: The Art Museum of Beijing Academy of Fine Arts, located on Chaoyang Park South Road, is exhibiting freehand flower and bird paintings by 11 artists including Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Chen Banding, Wang Shensheng, Li Kuchan, and Wang Xuetao. Explore the inheritance and innovation of freehand flower-and-bird painting from everyone's brush strokes, and promote the humanistic spirit and poetic connotation contained in traditional painting.

The Fable of "Continuity": Chen Wenling's Solo Exhibition: Until February 28, the sculptures and painting manuscripts of contemporary artist Chen Wenling will be on display at Beijing Minsheng Museum of Modern Art. Through 3 groups of large-scale installations, more than 50 sculptures and 80 painting manuscripts, the artist's exploration process and achievements are comprehensively introduced.

Pan Shixun’s Sketch and Oil Painting Exhibition: Pan Shixun is a modern Chinese oil painter and art educator. This exhibition in the 2B exhibition hall of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum displays more than 300 sketches, manuscripts and oil paintings by the artist. If you are an oil painting enthusiast, learn about the artist's important practice in Chinese realist oil painting from these works, as well as the contemporary characteristics of art education in New China.

Exhibition commemorating the 120th anniversary of Wen Yiduo’s birth: An indispensable figure in middle school textbooks believes that Mr. Wen Yiduo was born in 1899. This exhibition at the Exhibition Hall of the Chinese Oil Painting Academy in Gaobeidian has On the other hand, let us understand this master of modern China. The exhibition includes sketches, bindings, calligraphy, seal cutting, notes and documents, etc.

During the winter vacation, there are also the following exhibitions in Chaoyang District that you can join, including:

The Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum is extraordinary - Wang Bingfu’s sixty-year artistic pursuit

A day at the China Science and Technology Museum with Marco Polo: Discovering the Wisdom of the Silk Road Theme Exhibition

Beijing Municipal Archives Chinese Archives Treasures Exhibition

Haidian District: top talents from Peking University and Tsinghua University Exhibition

Peking University and Tsinghua University are two landmark locations in Haidian District. In addition to their enviable academic atmosphere, the two top museums here should become the focus of our attention.

Tsinghua University Art Museum

Located on the north side of the Academy of Fine Arts building, this art museum opened in 2016. It launches fine art exhibitions and collections throughout the year. In Tsinghua University Create a good cultural and artistic atmosphere. We recommend the following exhibitions:

Walter Bossard and Robert Capa in China: Two photographers from Sweden and Hungary used their cameras to bring us the 1930s Chinese society during the Anti-Japanese War, viewing Chinese history through a Western perspective, exploring the issue of truth in photojournalism and the power of wartime photography.

Antoine Motier: Ink Lines of Light and Shadow: The Belgian painter exhibited more than 50 works in China this time, which are both traditional Chinese and modern ink paintings for the first time, combining Belgian abstract art with Chinese tradition. The combination makes the work both figurative and abstract, connecting the small and the grand, intrinsic and necessary for survival, and showing an eternal theme.

Aesthetic Education in Life: Wu Guanzhong’s Centenary Christmas Art Exhibition: This exhibition features 111 works by the master. Whether they are oil paintings or colored inks, they are, without exception, as clean and clear as ever. The worldly scenes are kneaded into a pure color, and then natural or secular food is turned into points and lines, turning into sounds in chaos, like meteors streaking across the night sky.

Peking University Sackler Museum of Archeology and Art

If you go to Tsinghua University, you cannot miss Peking University. Among the many buildings of Peking University, the Sackler Museum of Archeology and Art of Peking University is located in Minghe Park. You have to go to the museum, as it is the first archaeological museum in Chinese universities.

The exhibition hall covers an area of ??about 2,000 square meters, and the collection includes: stoneware, bronzeware, oracle bones, pottery, porcelain, calligraphy and painting, inscriptions and other major categories. The basic display is divided into seven parts: the Paleolithic Age, the Neolithic Age, the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the Warring States Period, the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Three Kingdoms and Two Jin Dynasties, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the Song, Liao, Jin, Yuan and Ming Dynasties.

In addition to regular exhibitions, there are currently several exhibitions worthy of attention in the exhibition hall:

"The Bards of the Nineteenth Century: Exhibition of Delacroix Prints from the Collection" : Calligraphy and painting exhibits are an important part of the Sackler Museum. This exhibition comprehensively displays the achievements of French artists in printmaking art through 48 exhibits. This exhibition is only open to off-campus visitors on weekends, and reservations are required 7 days in advance.

"Special Exhibition of Silk Road Civilizations in Thousands of Mountains": The exhibits in this exhibition mainly come from 11 collection institutions including the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and the Turpan Museum. For example, the mummy of Princess Xiaohe, bronze warrior statues of the Warring States Period, men's clothing in Yingpan, pictures of ladies holding lamps in the Tang Dynasty, etc.

In addition to the museums in these two universities in Haidian District, there are two exhibitions in the Summer Palace that are worthy of attention.

The Summer Palace Fushou Cultural Relics Exhibition in the Dehe Garden Theater displays 99 pieces/set of cultural relics. From the Shang Dynasty 3,000 years ago to the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, more than 30 times were exhibited for the first time, displaying the profound Fushou culture of the Summer Palace. , conveying best wishes for blessings and birthdays.

Exported treasures from Wenchang Yuan: The exhibition of foreign cultural relics collected by the Summer Palace includes porcelain, glassware, clocks, cosmetics, furniture, Qibaoware, musical instruments, foreign cars, ships, etc. Through the royal collection, we can see the level of technology and craftsmanship in European and American countries from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.