National Museum of China

Grand Scale
The total construction area of the National Museum of China is nearly 200,000 square meters. Such a huge construction area makes it the museum with the largest single building area in the world, occupying an extremely important position in the global museum community. The number of collections in the museum is even more than 1 million pieces. These rich and diverse collections are like vivid history books, silently telling the long process of human history development and witnessing the changes of civilizations in different eras and regions.

Exhibition Hall Layout
The museum is divided into five floors, with multiple exhibition halls on each floor, totaling 48 exhibition halls. These exhibition halls are reasonably distributed and each has its own characteristics, providing sufficient display space for different types of exhibitions. With its rich collection reserves, the National Museum of China is deservedly one of the museums with the richest collection of Chinese cultural relics. Whether it is precious historical relics, exquisite artworks, or documentary materials of great historical significance, they can all be found here, allowing visitors to fully and multi-angularly appreciate the profoundness of Chinese culture and the splendor of human civilization.

Rich and Diverse Exhibition Systems
Its exhibition system is exquisitely designed and richly diverse, consisting of basic exhibitions, special topic exhibitions, international exchange exhibitions, and temporary exhibitions. The basic exhibitions mainly display the main line of the development of Chinese history and culture, presenting them in chronological order from ancient times to the present, enabling the audience to clearly understand the evolution of Chinese history. The special topic exhibitions focus on the cultural relics and related contents of a specific field, a specific theme, or a specific period, conducting in-depth exploration and display, making the audience have a deeper understanding of the cultural connotations of specific aspects. The international exchange exhibitions build a bridge for cultural exchanges between domestic and foreign museums. By displaying the fine cultural relics from different countries, they promote the mutual understanding and reference between different cultures. The temporary exhibitions flexibly arrange the exhibition contents according to the hot topics, major events, or newly discovered cultural relics in different periods, constantly bringing fresh and unique viewing experiences to the audience. These four exhibition forms complement each other and cover all stages from ancient times to the present, meeting the diverse needs of different audience groups for history, culture, art, etc.

Reservation Tips for Visiting
Since the National Museum of China is deeply loved by the public and has a large number of visitors, in order to ensure that visitors can have a smooth and efficient visiting experience, it is recommended that everyone make an online reservation in advance before going. By making an advance reservation, you can reasonably arrange your visiting time, avoid waiting in line on the spot for too long, and thus save a lot of time, allowing visitors to more calmly appreciate the precious collections and wonderful exhibitions in the museum.