Chinese Garden Museum

A very conscientious free museum, hidden in a secluded place, actually gave people a great surprise. The China Garden Museum, on the side of the Beijing West Garden Expo Park, although it is divided into two units, is integrated with the Garden Expo Park. The outdoor exhibition area also conforms to the concept of Chinese gardens to borrow scenery and see through the scenery. The Garden Expo Tower and the exhibition area buildings complement each other and form a perfect landscape under the blue sky and white clouds. The indoor exhibition area has exhibitions and gardens. Although it is cramped, you can overlook the gardens on the second floor of the exhibition hall, which is also a rare landscape. Instead, it deepens the understanding and perception of the concept of Chinese garden construction.

While experiencing, recording and understanding, there is a lot of information, many knowledge points, and the exhibition is meticulously laid out, reflecting the level of a national museum!

The museum is filled with garden elements. The hall is spacious and bright, with carved beams and painted buildings facing you, spring mountains on the left and autumn water on the right. Even the souvenir shop in a corner of the hall on the first floor is very distinctive.

Suzhou Garden Changyuan is located on the first floor, indoors, with a glass roof. It is full of lush vegetation and flowers in all seasons.

Yangzhou Garden·Pianshan Stone House is located on the second floor. Outdoors, most of the plants have withered and the water has begun to freeze. You have to wait until spring when the flowers bloom to appreciate it.

Lingnan Garden·Yuyin Villa, first floor, indoors, with a pond with black swans, rich colors, significantly different from common gardens.

The Chinese Gardening Skills Hall has real scenes, display boards, rocks, and flowing water, which fully demonstrates the concept, layout, elements, and techniques of Chinese gardens. I gained a lot from watching it carefully.

The World Famous Gardens Expo Hall uses text and pictures on boards to list representative gardens of different styles by continent and country, and a small number of models are displayed in the hall.

The museum has four temporary exhibition halls, all of which have been set up, namely "Yangshi Lei", "Photography Exhibition", "Colored Sculpture Exhibition" and "Dingzhou Cultural Relics". Among these four exhibitions, only the content of Yangshi Lei is closely related to the garden, while the other three exhibitions are not closely related. The exhibitions will last until the end of February or early March, and can still be visited during the Spring Festival.

The China Garden Museum is a very good place to visit, learn and relax, especially for the elderly to bring their children to play, and the children can also gain some knowledge through osmosis. There is a representative work of Suzhou gardens and a representative work of Lingnan gardens in the exhibition hall, as well as an introduction to the development history of Chinese garden art, a promotion of foreign garden art, and temporary garden-related exhibitions. There are also many small animals in the museum, such as wild ducks, mandarin ducks, black swans and fish.

I wanted to go to the Garden Expo Park, but somehow I ended up here at the Garden Museum. Take Metro Line 14, Exit A, turn right to the innermost bus stop for Bus No. 55, and get off at the China Garden Museum stop. It is said that you can also enter the Garden Expo Park from here, but I didn't try.

It is divided into indoor and outdoor parts. There is an exhibition hall indoors and a park outdoors, with water, bridges, mountains, birds, fish, flowers and plants. It is suitable for bringing the elderly and children. Overall, it is worth the trip.

This is a great museum, and it is also a good place for citizens to relax and have fun. Located in Fengtai, our family drove there. Due to limited parking spaces, we might be ticketed if we parked anywhere else, so we waited in line for a while before parking. But the exhibits in the museum are totally worth our wait!

You can get a museum brochure, which tells you the three routes: one-day tour, half-day tour and quick tour. We followed the one-day tour route. Except for some attractions that were not open due to the rain in recent days and fear of slippery heights, the other exhibition areas were a feast for the eyes. I will go here to check in in autumn!

What impressed me most were several indoor garden exhibition areas, namely Suzhou Gardens, Lingnan Gardens and Yangzhou Gardens. Among them, the setting of flowers in the mirror and moon in the water in the Yangzhou Gardens felt very magical. Because the mirror was wiped very clean, I really couldn’t tell whether I was in the mirror or in the scenery, it was both real and illusory.

The setting up of the temporary exhibition area is also very good. There are exhibits of Song Dynasty porcelain and Jingdezhen, and you can also have close contact with the panda figures.

The permanent exhibition is divided into ancient gardens, modern gardens and foreign gardens, each of which has a very detailed introduction. These text or model introductions allow us to understand the stories behind the gardens after being there.

Ancient gardens, beautiful; small animals, lively; lake water, clear; few people, quiet

I want to tell you why I recommend you to go here: this is a national museum, its scale and taste are beyond words. There are few tourists here, so you can take pictures freely and naturally, without the hustle and bustle of the crowds. You can enjoy a leisurely tour. It is the best place for friends who love garden art and bring children to visit. For friends who don't have time or opportunity to visit Jiangnan gardens, this place will give you an unexpected surprise. Free parking here, no tickets are required (you only need to show your ID card to get the ticket)

I went there twice during the Qingming Festival and May Day in 2015. It is indeed very unique, integrating natural scenery and knowledge popularization. I would like to go there again if I have the chance.

The China Garden Museum is located at the foot of Yingshan Mountain in Fengtai District and on the banks of the Yongding River. It is the first national museum in China with gardens as its theme. It consists of three parts: the main building, the indoor exhibition garden and the outdoor exhibition area. It mainly displays various types of gardens, including royal gardens, private gardens, Jiangnan gardens, northern gardens, and Lingnan gardens. The Garden Museum is an international garden cultural center that collects garden historical relics, promotes Chinese traditional culture, displays the charm of garden art, and studies the value of gardens.

The museum is located in the Garden Expo Park. It introduces the development of Chinese gardens and the characteristics of each era in detail, as well as the introduction of foreign garden landscaping art. There is a real garden upstairs. Public transportation is relatively convenient. After getting off at the Garden Expo Park Station on Metro Line 14, there is a bus that goes directly to the museum. It is not far away and can be visited together with the Garden Expo Park.

During the National Day holiday, in order to avoid the surging tourists, I took my daughter to the Garden Museum located at Gate 6 of the Garden Expo Park. The museum implements a free ticket system. You can enter the museum by collecting tickets at the ticket office with your personal ID card and passing through the security gate. There is a parking lot at the entrance. Parking is free after registering your license plate number and mobile phone number. The essence of the entire Chinese garden is all here. Not only can you see the restored miniature landscape of the Old Summer Palace and Suzhou gardens, but also the development history of gardens.

The China Garden Museum is located in Fengtai District, Beijing. It is a permanent exhibition hall built for the Beijing World Horticultural Exposition. It will continue to hold long-term exhibitions after the Expo, mainly introducing knowledge related to gardening. The three representative real-life exhibition halls in the museum are particularly worth recommending: Changyuan, representing Suzhou gardens; Yuyin Shanfang, representing Lingnan private residences; and Pianshi Shanfang, representing the Yangzhou style.

The science exhibition hall belongs to the garden. I don't think the exhibition is very impressive. I went there on the way to the Garden Expo Park.

Located in Fengtai District, it is a subsidiary exhibition area of ​​the Garden Expo Park. It is open to the public free of charge. The parking lot is large and the security guards are humorous. You can exchange your ID card for a magnetic card ticket. After the ticket check, you will have to go through a strict security check. The exhibition hall is very large and is divided into outdoor and indoor parts. There are three northern gardens outdoors and three real scenes of Jiangnan gardens indoors. One of them is an outdoor miniature on the second floor. The exhibition hall on the left is a long-term exhibition hall, and the temporary exhibition hall on the right changes the exhibition content from time to time. Personally, I think you should go to the service desk to get a tour guide when you enter the door. There are route introductions on it, which are divided into classic routes, half-day routes, and one-day routes. Tourists can refer to them by themselves. I like the three condensed real-life Jiangnan gardens very much. There is a feeling of moving in space.

Tickets can be exchanged with ID cards, and drinking water can be obtained at the Visitor Service Center. There are four public welfare lectures every day at 10:00, 10:30, 14:00, and 14:30.

Although many local gardens are temporary exhibitions, museums should be permanent exhibitions, and it is said that they will be open to the public for free later. In museums, many garden designs are copied.

The museum's terrace is also a kind of garden pattern.

There are also many exhibition projects that introduce garden plants, the history of gardens, and are planned by many experts.

The highlight of the Garden Expo is the Chinese Garden Museum. The museum introduces the history of the development of gardens in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad. The most precious treasure of the museum is ebony.

It's very big inside, with documents, pictures, introductions to domestic and foreign buildings, and a 4D garden movie to watch (but I thought it was 3D because the chairs didn't move much, but the scenery was beautiful). It uses a lot of sound, light and electricity, and there are real experience officers. It feels very good. We wasted some time here, so we didn't finish all the rest of the itinerary.

The China Garden Museum is divided into several different exhibition areas, which also display the twelve animal heads of the Old Summer Palace.

I must emphasize that it is free. When we are about to enter the museum, an employee will give us a "ticket" that looks like a subway ticket. The ticket must be kept properly and must be returned when you leave, just like the subway. You need to insert the card to leave (I saw a big brother at the exit and couldn't leave for a long time). Fortunately, I took a photo of it as a souvenir to show it off. The museum mainly introduces some Chinese gardens from ancient times to the present, compares them with foreign gardens, and introduces famous Chinese garden designers (style thunder). In addition, this place is very suitable for children to have some 4D garden games, and the venue has air conditioning so that parents can take a break. The museum has not been renovated yet. Only Suzhou Garden and Yangzhou Garden have been completed and can be visited (we went at a very bad time. Leaders visited and were not allowed to enter, and there were armed police guarding the door. I was helpless and could only take some photos from above for reference).

There was a very nice lady selling water in the museum. When I bought water, she told me that the water she bought was also sold online for ￥3.90, but she only sold it for ￥4.00. (The drinks and popsicles in other service areas were really expensive, and my big torch cost ￥7.00).

This museum is really good. It not only introduces the garden construction, but also has the most abundant pictures. There are also pavilions in other regions, such as Huangshan, Leshan, etc. There are many analyses of the architecture of the Mountain Resort, the architecture of Suzhou Gardens, the architecture of the Forbidden City, the architecture of the Summer Palace, etc. The tickets are free and you can learn a lot.

On the way, I saw that it was still early, so I turned to the museum in the Garden Expo Park to have a look. It was free to visit and there were few people. It seems that new things are not well received.

I think the Garden Expo will be more beautiful in autumn, many trees are newly planted and have not grown up yet, especially the ginkgo trees. The Suzhou Garden section of the Garden Museum is very good. Many trees are still on IV drips because of poor acclimatization. Even the giant pandas in the Chengdu Garden sleep all day. So let's come back to this place in two days, haha~!

The China Garden Museum mainly exhibits characteristic gardens, buildings and iconic attractions from all over the country.

The stone banquet of Manchu and Han banquet, the stone itself may not be a strange stone, but the creativity is very wonderful. The Lei family of the Qing Dynasty was really awesome, a master of architecture. The bronze statues of the twelve zodiac animals. The design of the garden in the garden is the finishing touch. I like it very much

The China Garden Museum is a vivid "History of Chinese and Foreign Gardens". I just took the professional examination for senior landscape engineers last week. I reviewed all the knowledge I learned from books here, and I can also popularize garden knowledge to my friends who go with me. An indoor mountain and water arrangement on the right side of the hall is also simple and exquisite.

The museum exhibits use sound, light and electricity to show the artistic conception of ancient gardens, which is very attractive to babies. Children like the display of the four seasons of Wuxi Jichang Garden very much.