Capital Museum
Art museum in Xicheng District, Beijing / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Capital Museum (Chinese: 首都博物馆) is an art museum in Beijing, China. It opened in 1981 and moved into its present building in 2006, which houses a large collection of ancient porcelain, bronze, calligraphy, painting, jade, sculpture, and Buddhist statues from imperial China as well as other Asian cultures
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Established | 1981 |
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Location | Xicheng District, Beijing |
Coordinates | 39.905°N 116.336°E / 39.905; 116.336 |
Type | Art museum |
Visitors | 1,722,998 (2016)[1] |
Public transit access | |
Website | www |
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Part of the museum's collections were formerly housed in the Confucius Temple on Guozijian Road in Beijing.