The Beijing Lu Xun Museum (the New Culture Movement Memorial of Beijing) was established on the base of the former Lu Xun Museum and New Culture Movement Memorial of Beijing. It includes areas of Lu Xun Museum and the New Culture Movement Memorial of Beijing.The museum is mainly in charge of collecting, preserving, studying, publicizing and demonstrating objects and materials of Lu Xun and other celebrities during the new culture movement. It was open in October 19, 1956.

It includes Lu Xun’s Former Residence and exhibition hall of Lu Xun’s life. Lu Xun’s Former Residence is a national key cultural relic protection site.It was designed and rebuilt by Lu Xun in the spring of 1924, and is by far the best preserved Lu Xun site in Beijing. He has lived here for two years before going to southern China in August, 1926.In May 1929 and November 1932, he returned to Beijing from Shanghai to visit his mother and lived there.

It is in Lu Xun’s Former Residence that he completed some wonderful contents of Huagai Collections, Huagai Collections II, Wild Grass (Ye cao), Wandering (Pang huang), Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk (Zhao hua xi shi) and Tomb (Fen). In 1947, Lu Xun’s wife Zhu An died of illness. The underground Communist Party sealed the former residence by the High Court of Peiping and gave it underground protection. Lu Xun’s Former Residence was officially open on the 13th anniversary of Lu Xun’s death on October 19, 1949. In next March, Ms. Xu Guangping donated the former residence and all the books and cultural relics of Lu Xun to the country. In early 1954, the Ministry of Culture decided to build Lu Xun Museum and add a showroom near to the former residence, which was open on the 20th anniversary of Lu Xun’s death on October 19, 1956.

Visiting Time: Tuesday – Sunday: 9:00 -16:00 (closed on Mondays)

Address: No.19, 2nd Alley of Gongmenkou, Fuchengmennei Street, Xicheng District  西城区阜成门内大街宫门口二条19号

Traffic Guide: take Subway Line 2 to get off at Exit B of Fuchengmen Station and walk 200 m towards east