China Museum

China museum displays 6,000 years of sex

It's all there, artistically displayed on fans, bronzes and ceramics and in phallic forms sculpted in crude stone or precious jade: more than 6,000 years of human sexuality in the world's most populous nation.

China Museum of Telecommunications

China Museum of Telecommunications houses a relics exhibition, demonstrates the latest in science and technology, and is also venue for popular science education. This museum is the first of its kind in the information and telecommunications field.

The exhibition halls are distributed over three floors. The Comprehensive Hall, on the first floor, mainly exhibits achievements in the telecommunications field since reform and opening-up, and its role within the development of society, as well as its exchanges and cooperation with international counterparts.

China Heritage Museum

The Chinese collection begins with a small collection of items from the 2nd millenium BC, notable for its diversity of textiles and embroidery in good condition, such as those from the Hun burial at Noin-Ula.

The most important group of works of Far Eastern art is of course associated with Buddhism: statues of deities and monks, fragments of wall paintings of the 5th to 10th centuries from the monastery of Qian-fuo-dong (‘The Cave of a Thousand Buddhas') at Dunhuang. Monasteries in the oases of Eastern Turkestan, now part of China, provided items dating from the 5th to15th centuries, which are of great importance in the study of Buddhism.