The Capital Museum in Beijing

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Original date:: Oct 02, 2010

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And look - another amazing super-structure in Beijing!

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I've had a lot of family in town and been showing them all my unpublished stuff from Beijing, including this photo. They all remark on how impeccably modern and impressive the city has become. From what I understand, they have started bringing in more and more western architects to design innovative structures. I'm not sure who the architect here is... but it's very well done.

See that giant red velvet wall to the right? It's hiding a new display that's currently being built. I've never seen such an elaborate "under construction" wall!

from Trey Ratcliff at www.stuckincustoms.com

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Capital Museum

The Capital Museum (Chinese: 首都博物馆) located at 16 Fuxingmenwai Dajie, Xicheng District is an art museum in Beijing, China. It opened in 1981 while the present building was built in the late 1990s and it houses a variety of items from Imperial China as well as other Asian cultures. Part of the museum's collections were formerly housed in the Confucius Temple on Guozijian Road in Beijing.

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