Hours 9am-5pm

Address Xi San Huan Bei Lu 18

Location Haidian Qu (on north side of Chang He, east side of the West Third Ring Rd.)

Transportation Bus: 811 from Gongzhu Fen metro stop (110) to Wanshou Si

Phone 010/6841-3380

Prices Admission ¥60 ($7), including guide

Frommer's Review


The Longevity Temple, now home to the Beijing Art Museum (Beijing Yishu Bowuguan), was funded by a eunuch and was originally constructed in 1577. It later became a stopping point for the Qianlong emperor and his successors (particularly the Empress Dowager Cixi) on their way to the Summer Palace by boat, a route now followed by tour boats departing from just north of the zoo. The long sequence of heavily restored but low-key halls now houses an odd set of exhibitions, featuring everything from early ceramics, iron, and copperware, to late and very intricate lacquerware and carved ivory. Puzzlingly, the museums most interesting exhibit, highly decorated and ancient seals (zhuanzhang) wrought from a variety of precious and semiprecious materials are now kept in storage. At the rear of the complex is a rock garden from whose top Cixi is supposed to have admired the surrounding countryside, now long built over. Also visible are the original east and west wings of the complex, now occupied by squatters and staff, although there are plans to renovate the west wing.

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. Milu Yuan (Milu Park) . Factory 798 (Qijiuba Gongchang) . Wu Men (Meridian Gate) . Wanshou Si . Tian Yi Mu . Taihe Men (Gate of Great Harmony) . Taihe Dian (Hall of Great Harmony) . Tai Miao . Song Qingling Guju . Seventeen-Arch Bridge (Shiqi Kong Qiao) . Ri Tan Gongyuan (Ri Tan Park) . Renshou Dian (Hall of Benevolence and Longevity) . Zhonghe Dian (Hall of Middle Harmony) . Ming City Wall Park

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