Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall

Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall is a well known patriotism educational center in Beijing. It is located at south eastern side Tiananmen Square and officially opened to public in September of 2004. It is an exhibition hall that shows the civil development history as well as current situation of Beijing and at the same time promotes the future planning of Beijing. In other word, this is the best destination for you to know the story of past, present and future of Beijing.

High-end technologies as well as various types of methods have been applied to display the content of exhibition and at the same time murmuring the development history of this ancient city in a very unique way. The entire development of Beijing as well as the future city planning can be clearly seen through the exhibition as well. The whole exhibition area is basically divided into two sections, which are Development History of Ancient City and Conservation of Beijing Historical Cultures. A large number of old photo, images, documents, artifacts as well as multimedia presentation have been used to show the overall development process. Moreover, the conservation projects of Forbidden City that had been taken as well as the different landscape of Beijing in different period have been highlighted in the exhibition as well.

On the second floor there is a bronze relief sculpture of The Old City of Beijing is 10-meter high and 9-meter wide with a scale of 1:1,000. It fully depicts the overall layout and characteristics of Beijing in 1949. The sculpture features more than 118,000 houses and 60,000 trees and a large number of alleys, lakes and rivers.

The third floor features the evolution of the old city of Beijing with a large amount of photos, old maps, wells of the Han Dynasty and gate frusta and column heads of the Qing Dynasty, as well as models of courtyard houses and various gateways. The transformation of Beijing is traced from its primitive stage to the emergence of a city and eventually to a big metropolis and capital of a multi-nation state, as well as through the cultural and city planning characteristics.

On the forth floor there is a 3-D film cinema which covers a floor area of 400 square meters with a 120-degree arc screen and is able to show wide-screen movies and virtual-reality city animations. Available movies now include (1) The Immortal City, a 10-minute film about the 850-year history of Beijing as a capital city; (2) The New Beijing, a 3-D film lasting about 6 minutes, featuring current achievements in the development of Beijing and the progress towards 2008.

Addres: No 20, East Qianmen Avenue, Chongwen Disrict.
Opening hour: Tue-Sunday 9:00am --4:00pm ( closed on Monday )
Tel:010-67024559

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