China Millennium Monument 中华世纪坛

Standing on the extended West Chang’an Avenue, China Millennium Monument is built in celebration of the 21st Century, the dawn of a new millennium. Functioning as China Millennium Monument World Art Museum nowadays, it is China’s first cultural institution of public character for collecting, exhibiting and researching in foreign arts.

This year, Traditional Culture Fair here is ready to launch a mountain of commodities of national and traditional features, including handicrafts with Guizhou characteristics, wines, batiks, oil-paper umbrellas, folding fans, fabric flowers - an epitome of folk customs in ancient Beijing, Chinese knots, sachets, and cultural and creative products of Chinese tradition esthetics (like mini notebooks with buttons, embroidered notebooks, portable speaker-used embroidered covers, bamboo rulers carved with patterns, loop-handled teapots and ornaments). In addition, citizens can enjoy the pleasure in experiencing paper cutting, gourd pyrography, seal cutting, clay sculpture and other intangible cultural artistries at the fair.

Address: No. 9A, Fuxing Road, Haidian District北京市海淀区复兴路甲9号

Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 from Tuesday to Sunday (tickets sold until 16:00; tickets checked until 16:10); closed on Monday (national statutory holidays excepted)

Ticket: free. Parts of landscapes and ordinary exhibitions are free to the public. Tourists can get the free tickets on presentation of ID cards or other valid identity documents; for special exhibitions and events, tourists are suggested to reserve tickets on the official website, and buy or get tickets at the Tourist Information Desk within the north square of China Millennium Monument.

Transportation: take Subway Line 1 or Line 9 to Military Museum Station, and walk to the destination; take Bus 1, 21, 68, 99, 308, 320, 337 or 728 to Military Museum Station; or take Bus 32, 65, 78 or 414 to the south gate of Jade Deep Lake Park.