Guojia Bowuguan
Guojia Bowuguan is a museum in Beijing, North China. Guojia Bowuguan is situated nearby to the city gate Zhengyangmen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Forbidden City and Zhengyangmen.
Forbidden City
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Forbidden City, located at the centre of Beijing, was the main palace of Imperial China for five centuries, until the early 20th century. It today houses the Palace Museum, one of China's largest national museums, with an extensive collection based on the former imperial collection.
Zhengyangmen
City gate
Photo: Eunice winG, CC BY 2.0.
Qianmen is the colloquial name for Zhengyangmen, a gate in Beijing's historic city wall. The gate is situated to the south of Tiananmen Square and once guarded the southern entry into the Inner City. Zhengyangmen is situated 590 metres southwest of Guojia Bowuguan.
National Centre for the Performing Arts
Theater building
The National Centre for the Performing Arts, colloquially described as The Giant Egg, is an arts centre containing an opera house in Xicheng, Beijing, China. National Centre for the Performing Arts is situated 1 km west of Guojia Bowuguan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chongwen and Central Dongcheng.
Chongwen
Chongwen, formerly Chongwen District, is an area in Beijing. Its main attraction is the Temple of Heaven.
Central Dongcheng
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Dongcheng District is in Beijing. It means "east city" and appropriately enough covers the eastern half of the old, imperial city. Most visitors to the city will come here to visit both Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace.
Xicheng
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Xicheng District is a district in central Beijing. Visitors come here for the Houhai area to join the bar and restaurant cluster by the lake or to explore the remains of the wealthier part of historical Beijing nearby.
Guojia Bowuguan
- Type: Museum
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.90365° or 39° 54′ 13″ northLongitude
116.39531° or 116° 23′ 43″ eastElevation
57 metres (187 feet)Open location code
8PFRW93W+F4GeoNames ID
8384569
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In Other Languages
“Guojia Bowuguan” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “国家博物馆”
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