Do I need to make an appointment for Dongsi Hutong Museum?

No need to make an appointment. Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 09: 00- 12: 00, 14: 00- 17: 00.

Dongsi Hutong Museum is located at No.77 Dongsi Sitiao. The main building is built around 1940. It is a typical courtyard with an area of 1023 square meters. It used to be the office of Dongsi police station. After two years of preparation and one year of design and construction, Dongsi Street cooperated with the Capital Group to build it into a museum.

The museum is divided into five exhibition areas: Dongsi Impression Exhibition Area, Impression Washe Exhibition Area, Cultural Visit Exhibition Area, Cultural Exchange Living Room and Historical Relics Exhibition Area.

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1. As soon as I entered the door, I saw a beautifully made hanging door with slogans such as "Serve the people wholeheartedly" written on both sides of the last century.

2. Walk into the second yard and show the features of the hutong dwellings in old Beijing: quadrangle, Liangguangmen, Zhu Jin Gate, Ruyi Gate and Man Zi Gate. There are upside-down lintels, eaves, doorways, sparrows, box joints, shadow walls, dripping water, etc.

Museum exhibits: wardrobe in the Republic of China: the first exhibit collected by Dongsi Museum, which was used for marriage in the 1940s. The left door is inlaid with a full-length mirror, and the right door is finely carved. The copper handle on the drawer has a sense of vicissitudes and the times. Bows handed down from ancestors, fish tanks in the Republic of China, Luban benches in the Republic of China, sock boards and so on.

Historical and Cultural Exhibition Area: A variety of ancient Dongsi objects are displayed, such as the lotus leaf pier, cave head, components of ancient buildings, bricks in the 22nd year of Jiaqing, and dozens of old photos of Dongsi in Fu Kangan.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Dongsi Hutong Museum.