Spring is the perfect time to visit the gardens. You can enjoy the pleasure of the gardens without leaving the city, so come and see!

1. The Museum of Chinese Gardens and Landscape Architecture

The Museum of Chinese Gardens and Landscape Architecture (MCGALA) is the first national museum with the theme of gardens in China, covering an area of 65,000 square meters. With the concept of "Chinese garden - our ideal home", it is an important window to comprehensively display the long history, splendid culture, diversified functions and brilliant achievements of Chinese gardens.

The museum is mainly divided into exhibition halls, indoor exhibition gardens and outdoor exhibition areas, which are mutually interspersed and penetrated to form an exhibition whole. A variety of garden styles such as royal gardens, private gardens, Jiangnan gardens, northern gardens and Lingnan gardens are displayed, forming a geomantic omen precious landscape.

Taking advantage of the essence of southern gardens, the indoor exhibition garden has three landscapes: Chang Garden, Yu Yin Mountain Garden and Pian Shi Shan Fang Rockery Garden. Although Chang Garden is small in size, it is quaint and elegant. Surrounded by halls, pavilions, rockeries, lakes, flowers and trees, the pond is ancient and fragrant. According to the characteristics of the terrain, the outdoor exhibition area is composed of three northern gardens, namely, the Pagoda Shade Garden, the Alpenglow Garden and the Banmu Garden, forming a unique style of having a museum within a garden and a garden within a museum. There are more than 200 kinds of plants in the museum, and it is quite beautiful when the flowers are in full bloom in spring and summer! There are also swans and koi in the river.

Reservation: Make a reservation on MCGALA WeChat public account

Address: No. 15, Firing Range Road, Fengtai District, Beijing

2. Beijing Garden Expo Park

Beijing Garden Expo Park is a large public welfare city park integrating garden art, cultural landscape, ecological leisure and science education. In April, the flowers in the park are in full bloom and are very beautiful!

There are 69 exhibition gardens in the Garden Expo Park, divided into traditional exhibition gardens, modern exhibition gardens, creative exhibition gardens, international exhibition gardens and wetland exhibition gardens. There is not only the gracefulness of Jiangnan, the magnificence of the North, the freshness of Japan, but also the gorgeousness of the West.

Strolling through the Tang Dynasty Garden, Wuhan Garden, Jiangsu Garden and Min Garden, you will be in a trance that you were in Jiangnan. In spring, it's perfect to visit these gardens to take pictures in Chinese costume! The Jinxiu Valley is an example of "turning decay into magic" in the park. It turns a 20-hectare construction waste landfill pit into a sunken flower valley with lots of flowers. The European-style exhibition park has tall buildings with a strong exotic atmosphere.

Reservation: Make a reservation on the "Beijing Garden Expo Witness Wonderful" WeChat public account

Address: No. 15, Firing Range Road, Changxindian Town, Fengtai District, Beijing

3. Luo Hong Photography Art Museum

The photographs here give people an eye-opening experience. The lions, elephants, zebras, antelopes, giraffes and other animals are vividly and realistically displayed in front of your eyes, which is particularly shocking! In addition to the photography exhibition, people will be amazed by the landscape outside the museum. The greenery, the pond, the rockery, the fish and the swans all form a scene of their own! The staggering of small rocks and the arrangement of pine branches and the fish ponds are also unique.

Reservation: Make a reservation on "Beijing Luo Hong Photography Art Museum" WeChat public number to purchase tickets

Address: 200 meters south of Yanglin Avenue Exit, Tianzhu Town, Shunyi District, Beijing

4. Nan Chi Zi Art Museum

Located next to the Donghua Gate of the Forbidden City, Nan Chi Zi Art Museum is a non-profit art museum. The main building is a Suzhou-style garden with a venue area of about 1,500 square meters. It inherits the architectural features of traditional Chinese aesthetics, as well as being an art space with international exhibition standards.

Xu Lei's solo exhibition "Xing Hui" is currently on display, so don't miss it if you are interested! Xu Lei is a renowned international artist, whose works will be exhibited at the China Pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale from April 23 to November 27, 2022.

Reservation: Make a reservation on "Nan Chi Zi Art Museum" WeChat public number

Address: No. 21, Pudu Temple West Lane, Dongcheng District, Beijing