Beijing National Culture Palace

Beijing National Culture Palace

Located on the west side of Chang'an Street in Beijing, the national culture palace was built in September 1959. It is one of the ten famous buildings in Beijing after the 10th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China. Its establishment reflects the ethnic policies of the party and the state, and is a symbol of equality, unity, progress and prosperity of China's 56 fraternal nationalities.

built-up area

The building area of the national culture palace is 32000 square meters. The main building is 13 stories and 67 meters high. The East and West Wing buildings are surrounded on both sides. The central exhibition hall extends to the north. The cornice is crowned with Malachite blue glazed tiles. The building is white and the tower is towering. The whole building is unique, magnificent, magnificent and has a unique Chinese national style. It enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad, and is deeply loved by people of all ethnic groups in China. In 1994, it was elected as the first of 50 "my favorite national style buildings" in Beijing. As the "first palace" of new China, it was included in the history of World Architecture published in Britain. At the 20th Congress of the International Association of architects in 1999, the national culture palace was selected as one of the top architectural works of China in the 20th century.

The national culture palace is a cultural institution directly under the State Ethnic Affairs Committee. There are nearly 20 departments involved in cultural undertakings, operation and functional management, including Museum, Chinese national library, Chinese National Painting Academy, Chinese national Yearbook society, exhibition hall, national culture palace theater, hotel, etc. It has many functions, such as publicizing the party's ethnic policies, holding ethnic exhibitions, collecting and studying ethnic cultural relics and documents, providing ethnic books and periodicals, carrying out ethnic cultural exchanges, undertaking ethnic activities and commercial performances, etc. it is a window for Chinese and foreign people to understand Chinese ethnic culture.

Construction purpose

The purpose of the palace of national culture is to serve the cause of national culture, the work of nationalities and the unity and progress of all nationalities. Over the past 40 years since its completion, the national culture palace has collected more than 50000 precious cultural relics of ethnic minorities, collected more than 600000 volumes of documents and Chinese books in 24 languages of ethnic minorities, and held thematic cultural exhibitions and basic exhibitions on ethnic work achievements, ethnic costumes, musical instruments, arts and crafts, masks, etc. there are nearly 50 brothers in various ethnic regions in China The traditional culture and economic construction achievements of the nation are displayed here; national songs and dances, famous music and operas at home and abroad are staged; national audio-visual products are published; and national style food culture is displayed It has received foreign guests, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese from nearly 100 countries and regions, and has received hundreds of thousands of domestic and foreign visitors, guests and readers every year.

Address: 49 fuxingmennei street, Xicheng District, Beijing

Longitude: 116.36911845249

Latitude: 39.908173307662

Tel: 010-66039307

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