Beijing Top Interesting and Cool Museums-Continuing

Diabolo Museum, a place to collect all kinds of diabloes
In the early period, Diabolo was first used as the royal toy, and later became popular among the public. As a good tool of fitness and recreation for the ordinary people, the Diabolo was usually a special scene on the temple fair in the Qing Dynasty. In 2005, the Diabolo was included on the list of the first national non-material cultural heritages.

Diabolo Museum is in a quadrangle of western Baoguo Temple, consisting of three exhibition halls, which display the evolution, workmanship and patterns of diabolo. In the main hall, there are total 438 diaboloes of all types on show, including the old 100 years ago, the smallest in the world, the Olympic, the national day used and the one played by Pu Yi in childhood.

Address: No. 9 Xiaoxing Lane, Xuanwu District, Beijing
Transportation: taking Bus 6, 19, 38, 40, 57, 109, 477, 715, 687, 917, 717 and 743 to Guangnei Street.
Admission: for free

Old Car Museum, a place to gather rare old cars
Established by the first collector of old cars in China, Luo Wenyou, the Old Car Museum totally exhibits about 160 old-style cars containing the cars manufactured in early People's Republic of China, U.S. Dodge, German Benz, French Citroen, U.K. Morris, Former Soviet Union Regis, and special cars of Chairman Mao, Zhou Enlai and Lenin. Some collections are even the rare brands in China and world.

Address: Yangsong Town, Huairou District, Beijing
Transportation: taking Bus 916 to Nanhua Market, and transferring the branch line of Bus 916 to the National Digital Cinema Production Base, and then walk northward 300 meters.
Admission: CNY 50 for adult, and half price for student, the old, soldier and the disabled.

Beijing Folk Arts Museum
Beijing Folk Arts Museum is actually the Dongyue Temple, which was the site to make grand-scale national and folk sacrifices in old ages. Thus, here has deep folk culture background. After being respired, the temple turned into the unique state-owned folk arts theme museum in Beijing. Throughout the year, the museum holds a series of exhibitions on folk customs and folkways of old Beijing, like the objects from old Beijing people's daily life.

Address: No. 141 Chaoyangmenwai Street, Beijing
Transportation: taking Bus 101, 109, 110, 112, 750, 813, 846, 855 and 858 to the Shenlujie Station.
Admission: CNY 10

Beijing Cui Yongping Shadow Play Art Museum, a place to display the Chinese quintessence on the verge of extinction
A museum based on a renovated common dwelling, the Beijing Cui Yongping Shadow Play Art Museum was established by a shadow play artist Cui Yongping and his wife in order to hand down the Chinese old folk art dyeing out, a world top non-material cultural heritage one thousand years older than Peking Opera. Mr. Cui Yongpping and his wife emptied their savings to collect over 30,000 pieces of antique shadow figures surviving from the Ming and Qing Dynasties as well as the periods of Republic of China and Anti-Japanese War.

In the only-200-square-meter room, the watchers can see the process of creating shadow puppet 2000 years ago, and many precious shadow play related scenes, props and scripts.

Address: Floor 1, Unit 4, Building 16, Jinqiao Garden Community, Maju Qiao, Tongzhou District, Beijing
Transportation: transferring Bus 927 and 723 at Muxiyuan World Trade Shopping Center and getting off at the Majuqiao Station.
Ticket price: CNY 20 for shadow play

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