China Garden Museum

The China Garden Museum

The China Garden Museum (hereinafter referred to as the "Garden Museum") is one of the biggest highlights of the Beijing Garden Expo. It covers an area of 65,000 square meters, with a building area of 49,950 square meters, consisting of three parts: the main building, indoor exhibition gardens, and outdoor exhibition areas. The main building has 28,200 square meters available for exhibitions. The museum is 31.5 meters high (golden roof ridge). It features 9 indoor exhibitions, 3 indoor exhibition gardens, 3 outdoor exhibition gardens, as well as 5,000 collections and high-quality replicas.

The Garden Museum is a perfect combination of garden culture and technological innovation. Through its overall layout design, it utilizes natural ventilation to reduce energy consumption; the outdoor gardens are arranged at varying heights, facing south to ensure ample sunlight, providing a lush green shade for the museum buildings; different spatial layouts such as offset joints, atriums, and recessed corridors also improve ventilation. Additionally, the use of eco-friendly and energy-saving technologies such as natural light supplemented by solar photovoltaic power generation, reclaimed water recycling, rainwater utilization, and ice storage cooling make it a model of green energy efficiency, environmental protection application, and a hub for technology, concepts, education, training, and demonstration.

The museum's exhibitions adopt a system that combines permanent displays, thematic exhibits, and temporary exhibitions. Permanent displays focus on classical Chinese gardens and modern Chinese gardens as their main themes, while thematic exhibits center around world-famous gardens, garden design art, garden culture, and science education interactions. Temporary exhibitions showcase premium domestic and international garden-related artworks. Currently, it has been confirmed that three thematic exhibitions will be held during the Garden Expo: "Exquisite Craftsmanship" — the Style Lei “Garden Blueprint Exhibition,” “Porcelain Gardens — The Influence of Export Ceramics and Gardens on the West,” and “Imperial Garden Treasures — A Fine Exhibition of Cultural Relics from Beijing’s Royal Gardens.”

Address: No. 15, Shooting Range Road, Fengtai District, Beijing

Phone: 010-63915025

Official Website: http://www.gardensmuseum.cn/

Opening Hours:

(Tuesday–Sunday) 9:00–17:00; closed on Mondays, except for public holidays.

Transportation

Take bus 327, 385, or 951 to Lujing Station, then walk to the China Garden Museum; or take Metro Line 14 to Yuanboyuan Station and walk to the China Garden Museum.

Source: Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development

Further Reading:

· National Second-Class Museum of China