Guanfu Museum (Chinese: 观复博物馆; pinyin: Guānfù Bówùguǎn) is an art museum in Beijing. It was founded by Ma Weidu in 1996, and it was among the first private museums established after the foundation of the People's Republic of China.

History

The museum's old building was located on the Liulichang Street, and mainly exhibited unearthed relics from the Ming and Qing dynasties. The museum was then moved to Nanxiao Street and again to Dashanzi in 2004, where the current building is located at.

Exhibition Halls

Ceramics Hall

The Ceramics Hall exhibits artifacts covering 1,000 years between the Song and Qing dynasties. Many of the ceramic pieces represent the most typical feature of five famous kiln at that time, which are Ru kiln, Jun kiln, official kiln, Ge kiln and Ding kiln.

Furniture Hall

China has a long history of furniture-making. Furniture from the Ming and Qing periods in many ways represent the culmination of Chinese furniture-making skills, and they have various different features. Ming furniture features simple, smooth, and flowing lines, and plain and elegant ornamentation, fully bringing out the special qualities of frame-structure furniture. Influenced by China's burgeoning foreign trade and advanced craftsmanship techniques, furniture of the Qing Dynasty period turned to rich and intricate ornamentation, along with coordinated engraved designs. Because of the high level of development of Chinese furniture in the Ming and Qing dynasties, most Chinese furniture design today follows in the tradition from these two periods.