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Capital Museum

Capital Museum
Capital Museum

Capital Museum is an art museum in Yuetan Subdistrict, People's Republic of China.

About Capital Museum

The Capital Museum (Chinese: 首都博物馆) is a public municipal 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

Part of the museum's collections were formerly housed in the Confucius Temple on Guozijian Street in Beijing.

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Founded
1981

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Artworks shown from Capital Museum are in the public domain; images via the open-access programs of their source collections. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.