The Grand Canal Museum

The Grand Canal Museum in Beijing is located in the northwest of the urban green heart of Beijing’s sub-center. With a total construction area of approximately 99,700 square meters, it is composed of a shared lobby, an exhibition building (main building), and a leisure water street. The museum’s construction design concept is derived from the three elements of ship, sail, and water in the ancient canal picture.

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Taking the canal as a clue, historical culture is integrated into the building. The roof shape of the shared lobby is taken from a ‘ship’, and the roof shape of the exhibition building (main building) is taken from a’sail’. The leisure water street between the two buildings, combined with elements such as street intersections, canopies, and gate towers on the facade of the exhibition building (main building), forms a scene similar to a canal wharf.

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In addition, the logo of the Grand Canal Museum in Beijing (Eastern Hall of the Capital Museum) takes ‘The Thousand-Year Grand Canal, Flowing Culture’ as the core design concept. The Grand Canal is a main artery carrying dense Chinese cultural genes. The logo takes ‘Beijing Luck Dragon Seal, Sailboats and Ships, and Continuous Water Lines’ as the core graphic elements. With multiple meanings coexisting, it integrates and innovatively designs the Grand Canal theme in traditional Chinese cultural elements with vivid and ingenious visual language, polishes the ‘cultural business card’ of the Grand Canal, creates a new cultural landmark brand for the museum, strengthens the image dissemination of the thousand-year canal cultural brand, and tells the story of the Grand Canal to the world.

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Opening hours: Open all year round, Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 – 20:00.

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