Neighboring the Beijing Grand View Garden with antique flavor, there is a tranquil and unconventional museum, the Ancient Pottery Culture Museum, one of the first wave of privately-run museums in Beijing. Located in No.12 Nancaiyuan West Street in Xicheng District, the museum was opened to the public on June 15 in 1997.

Ancient Pottery Culture Museum is a museum that specializes in pottery culture. Pottery was the first marker of human civilization, as well as the source of human art. Known as the “Five Elements of Art”, pottery is a representative for Chinese nation, expressing its beauty and wisdom to the utmost. The culture relics preserved are comprised of three series, including over 100 ancient painted potteries of Neolithic Age and potteries of Zhou, Qin and Han Dynasties, over 300 tiles with a circular facade of Warring States period and Qin and Han Dynasties, and over 1000 lutes of Qin and Han Dynasties, as well as about 3000 ancient potteries of other fields concerned. All these relics form a nearly complete and vivid history of pottery civilization.

Many of the relics are to rarities, among which the lutes of Qin Dynasty can be seen as the first collection of “Government Official Names” and “Geography Records of China”, and the source and files of China's generations of government systems. Displayed together with these relics, there is the series of multi artistic languages of Lu Dongzhi. Abundant and systematic ceramic collections make it form a small museum with strong academic atmosphere.

In addition to exhibitions, the museum is also committed to developing the potential charm and value of its cultural relics collection, including a variety of crafts such as those from the design and production of the curtains to cloth, and from the original works to silk printing products etc.

Ticket: 50 RMB

Address: No. 12 West Nancaiyuan Street, Xicheng District

Bus Route: Take Bus No. 10, 19, 59, 122, 410, 603, 626, 716 and 937 to get there