Beijing Aerospace Model Museum

Beijing Aerospace Model Museum

The Beijing Aerospace Model Museum serves as a patriotic education base.

The Beijing Aerospace Model Museum is China’s first model museum. It includes four main facilities: an air, land, and sea model activity area centered around a "mini airport," an exhibition hall, a workshop, and a classroom, all surrounded by a 92,000-square-meter green belt that combines activity with tranquility in a pastoral setting. With its beautiful environment, rich exhibits, and dynamic yet serene atmosphere, the museum integrates technology, military elements, and entertainment. It is both a cradle for children to receive aerospace science education and to dream of flying in the future. Moreover, visitors can use the space to build models, practice flying, and showcase their talents. On holidays and weekends at 10:30 AM (excluding bad weather, with a ticket supplement), large-scale simulated flight performances are held, including inverted flying, airdrops, stunts, attacks, and more—intense, thrilling, and a feast for the eyes.

The museum features military themes, educational content, and interactive experiences. Here, primary and secondary school students can achieve well-rounded moral, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic development by visiting exhibitions, making models, participating in training, and watching flight shows. It serves as a grand classroom for promoting science and education, national defense education, and early aerospace science popularization. Model aircraft activities involve aesthetics, competition, innovation, interpersonal skills, and span multiple disciplines such as aerodynamics, radio, electromechanical control, structure, and manufacturing—making it an important tool for quality education. Many have been inspired by this sport to pursue success. The museum’s facilities meet international competition standards and offer an ideal venue for model aircraft enthusiasts. We hope people from all walks of life will join in advancing this beneficial endeavor, and may this place become a cradle for children to soar into the blue sky.

Covering 26,000 square meters, the model museum boasts a beautiful environment, rich exhibits, and a blend of dynamic and static displays. It integrates technology, military elements, and entertainment, serving as both a cradle for children to receive aerospace science education and to dream of flying in the future. Moreover, visitors can use the space to build models, practice flying, and showcase their talents. On holidays and weekends at 10:30 AM (excluding bad weather, with a ticket supplement), large-scale simulated flight performances are held, including inverted flying, airdrops, stunts, attacks, and more—intense, thrilling, and a feast for the eyes.

The Beijing Aerospace Model Museum is a science and technology museum focused on aviation science education with supplementary functions for in-school teaching. The museum spans 26,000 square meters and is divided into four exhibition areas: three indoor sections—"Aviation History," "China’s Aviation Industry Window," and "Comprehensive Exhibition"—and one outdoor display area featuring a static aircraft park. The "Aviation History" section uses vivid images, realistic models, and detailed texts to depict humanity’s earliest flying dreams and early challenges in exploring aviation. Here, visitors can see the Wright brothers, inventors of the airplane, and the world’s first aircraft they built, as well as a gallery dedicated to Feng Ru, an early Chinese aviator and designer.

The "Comprehensive Exhibition" features a wealth of real artifacts and exquisite models. These exhibits represent different countries, eras, and purposes, documenting the development of aerospace technology from multiple perspectives. On the outdoor main exhibition area’s tarmac, various fighter jets, bombers, reconnaissance planes, transport aircraft, helicopters, and ultralight planes from different historical periods are neatly arranged. Visitors can get an up-close look at military aircraft used in World War II, such as the American P-51 Mustang and P-47 Thunderbolt. You can also see the famous P-61 Black Widow, one of the earliest radar-equipped night fighters used in combat, as well as transport planes like the C-47, which had a service life of 20–30 years. Additionally, there are Chinese-made jet fighters, such as the supersonic J-7 and J-6. Every plane and every piece of wreckage here has a fascinating historical story behind it.

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The museum’s main activities are divided into three parts:

Visiting Exhibitions

Mainly includes "Aerospace Chronicles," introducing major milestones in the history of aviation and aerospace in China and abroad; "Glories of History," showcasing the historical achievements of the Chinese Air Force in combat; "World Warplanes Then and Now," presenting parameters and designs of major fighter jets from various countries through photos, as well as exhibits on China’s aerospace achievements and model displays.

Model Aircraft Making and Competitions

Each participant receives a simple model aircraft kit, assembles it on-site under the guidance of instructors, and takes part in competitions. The museum provides prizes free of charge.

Watching Model Aircraft Flight Performances

Featured aircraft include the Yak-5, AH-1 attack helicopter, J3 liaison aircraft, CAP-21, Y-12, and Tucano formation flights. Performances include aerobatics, airdrops, flower and ribbon releases, machine gun strafing, and ground attacks. You can even ride an electric glider to experience flying. You can also personally operate the launch of a Long March 2C rocket model. When you press the button and watch the rocket soar skyward with a long trail of smoke, your heart will race with excitement. To let people witness the impressive sight of large aircraft formations, the museum holds grand simulated flight performances from May to October each year, delivering a sensory and emotional thrill. Perhaps you’ll buy a model aircraft here, learn to fly it, tie a red scarf or fill it with wishes, start the engine, and send it soaring between the blue sky and white clouds.

Opening Hours: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM, closed on Mondays; from May to October, large-scale simulated performances are held at 10:30 AM every Saturday (except in bad weather or if otherwise scheduled).

Ticket Prices: Regular admission 20 RMB, students 10 RMB; flight performance 40 RMB, students 25 RMB. Group rates available upon request. (For reference only)

Inquiry Hotlines: 010-64372990, 010-64373015

Address: Inside the Huan Tie area, Dashanzi, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Transportation: Take bus routes 403 or 813 to the loop terminal, or routes 402 or 418 to the Nangao terminal, then walk 20–40 minutes.