The China Agricultural Museum is located in the National Agricultural Exhibition Center, one of the top ten buildings in Beijing in the 1950s, situated in the eastern third ring road of Beijing, covering an area of 52 hectares with nearly 5000 square meters of exhibition space. The museum is surrounded by pine and cypress trees, blooming flowers, and lush green grass, complementing the winding corridors, pavilions, and blue tiles with red eaves, creating an elegant environment. It features ten exhibition halls with Western-style antique architectural characteristics, making it a ‘garden-style unit’ in Beijing. In July 1983, the China Agricultural Museum was approved and established under the Ministry of Agriculture, and officially opened to the public in September 1986.
The museum’s exhibits are rich and vivid, serving as a window to understand China’s long agricultural history and contemporary achievements in agriculture. It is also a venue for exchanging agricultural science and technology and disseminating agricultural knowledge. It has successively organized basic exhibitions such as the history of ancient Chinese agricultural science and technology, Chinese agricultural resources and planning, Chinese fisheries, and Chinese soil specimens, showcasing the nearly ten thousand years of agricultural civilization, rich agricultural resources, and the main achievements of modern agricultural technology from different perspectives. The museum currently has exhibitions on modern Chinese agricultural technology, rare aquatic animals, rare terrestrial animals, and traditional Chinese agricultural tools. Exhibitions in preparation include the history of Chinese agriculture, basic exhibitions on the national conditions of Chinese agriculture, and special exhibitions on rural life in China over the past century, and Chinese soil specimens. The museum has a collection of over 10,000 artifacts and specimens, including more than 2000 precious agricultural artifacts, more than 2000 traditional agricultural tools, 123 subcategories and more than 230 soil specimens, over 50,000 books and ancient texts, and more than 10,000 pieces of various images. The museum is open all year round from Tuesday to Sunday from 09:00 to 16:30; it is closed all day on Mondays; and open on New Year’s Day, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and National Day from 09:00 to 16:30. Service facilities include guided tours: The museum offers free timed guided tours at 9:30 AM, 10:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 3:00 PM. Must-see tips: 1. Reservation and ticket collection: Visitors need to make a reservation and collect tickets 5 days in advance, with a daily limit of 2000 reservations. Individual visitors use a real-name reservation system, requiring the registration of names and other related information, with a maximum of 5 free tickets per person per reservation. Successfully reserved visitors must collect their tickets at the designated location before 4 PM on the day of the visit; after 4 PM, entry to the museum is not allowed. Elderly people over 60 years old with valid identification can collect tickets and enter the museum without reservation. 2. Free guided tours within the museum: 9:30 AM, 10:30 AM; 1:30 PM, 3:00 PM.China Agricultural Museum
The China Agricultural Museum is located in the National Agricultural Exhibition Center, one of the [...]
