Built in 1959, the China Agricultural Museum occupies an area of 430 thousand square meters,the construction area is 124 thousand square meters. The main construction of the museum consists of 10 separate exhibition halls with ethnic features, the main Office Building, Collections’ Storehouse, and some other accessory buildings. More than 50,000 collections as agricultural cultural relics, specimens, ancient books and traditional tools are preserved in the museum including 20,000 cultural relics and precious ancient books.
The museum consists of 10 monomer halls with ethnic style characteristic and multiple-use buildings, storehouses and cultural product rooms etc. The No. 1 Hall is located on the main axis of the museum and looks on to the main gate of the complex; the No. 2 and No. 3 Halls are lined up on its north and south; the No. 4 Hall and No. 5 Hall stands symmetrically face to face, and so are No. 5 and No. 6 Halls; the No. 8, 9, 10 Halls are at the back of the southern part of the museum, in the shape of a triangle. The ten halls are one harmonious whole: grand and magnificent; majestic and spectacular. On the back of No. 1, 2, 3 Halls, three lakes with an area of 41 thousand square meters are interconnected with each other.
Ticket: Free
Address: No. 16, Dongsanhuan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
Bus route: Bus Nos. 43, 113, 115, 117, 402, 405 and 302