China
Art & Craft Gallery is located near the crossroads
of Fuxingmen, West Changan Street, Beijing. It is the
first state level industrial art gallery in China, which
was opened to the outside world on July 1990.
The
architecture of the art and craft gallery combines both
the traditional architecture style and the modern decoration
art, which is filled with the nationality features. It
is strewn at random like a flower in bud.
The
gallery is composed of sequence hall, exhibition hall
and treasure hall. The large scale copper embossment wall
decoration embellished beneath the sequence hall, which
represents the 5,000 years long history and the excellent
tradition of China industrial art.
The exhibition hall gathers the essence of China industrial
art in the contemporary era, its mainly varieties includes
jade ware, ivory sculpture, wood and stone sculpture,
ceramics, lacquer work, stitch work, drawn work, cloisonne,
golden and silver luxury, floral incrustation, tin ware
and bornite etc, which includes the masterpiece of the
predecessors like the industrial art maters, specialists
and professionals as well as a batch of the state level
treasures that once won the state golden medal or international
golden medal. The four large-scale emerald treasures,
such as High Mountain Marvelous Spectacle, Sweet-scented
Flower, Screen Painted with the Rejoicing Four Seas, Hoop
Handle of Flower Basket, are the national treasures that
are rare in both present and past. The treasure hall gathers
the most excellent industrial art treasures of China in
the contemporary time. It is an elegant palace showing
that gem of industrial art of Chinese nationality.
The
gallery also set up art & craft work exhibiting &
selling hall. It is used to sell all kinds of the high-grade
craftworks, tourism remembrances and gifts which is for
the purpose of meeting the purchasing demands of the guests.
Address:
Fifth Floor, Baisheng Purchasing Center, Fuxingmenwai
Street, Xicheng District, Beijing.
Traffic route: Underground railway or bus Nos. 1, 4, 15,
37, 52, 57 get off at Fuxingmen Station

Open
Time: 09:30-16:30 Closed on Monday
Ticket:
8 yuan (US$1)
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