Beijing Museums | Former Site of the Beijing News Hall, Sound Art Museum

2023-05-22

Former Site of the Beijing News Hall  

The former site of Beijing News Hall is located at No. 30, Weiran Hutong, Chunshu Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, where the legendary newspaperman and revolutionary Shao Piaoping lived and created the Beijing News. It is one of the former sites of the Beijing Municipal Cultural Heritage Protection Unit and the early revolutionary activity sites of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing. On March 29, the former site of the Beijing News Hall was opened.  

The museum has three fixed exhibitions: "Beijing News and Beijing News Hall", "Shao Piaoping's Life Deeds" and "Centennial Revolutionary Newspapers" with "one newspaper, one hall and one person" as the core resource. The museum tells Shao Piaoping's experience of founding newspaper, showing the development history of the revolutionary newspaper industry of the Communist Party of China.

Address: No. 30, Weiran Hutong, Chunshu Street, Xicheng District, Beijing

Sound Art Museum

The Sound Art Museum is located in the Songzhuang Art Area of Tongzhou. Dedicated to exploring, collecting, protecting, and disseminating sound works, the museum is the first sound art museum in China. On May 19, the Sound Art Museum was officially opened to the public.  

The museum consists of "Sound Terminal" (permanent exhibition), "Sound Art Space" (temporary exhibition hall), "Ruogu Building" (sound experiment project base), "Sound Center", etc.

Address: No. 518, Luyuan North Street, Tongzhou District, Beijing (northeast corner of the intersection of Songzhuang Luyuan North Street and Xusong Road)

Translator: BAO Minmin

Reviewer: TANG Yingqi

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