Beijing Art Museum in wanshou temple located on a street of Suzhou, which is located in the Haidian District. The museum is a whole complex of storage of works of modern and ancient art. It was founded in 1985 on the basis wanshou temple, built in 1577.

Wanshou temple - peaceful and quiet imperial monastery. During the reign of various dynasties Temple experienced a lot of changes, reconstruction, and as a result has become a significant landmark, which consists of the monastery, the summer palace and gardens. In the past, the church was the main venue for the ceremonies celebrating the birthday of the emperor.

Now the Beijing Art Museum held a lot of different exhibitions: furniture exhibition, an exhibition on the history of the monastery, Buddhist art exhibition, an exhibition of porcelain, an exhibition of cultural property in Beijing, etc. The museum is about 50 000 exhibits on all kinds of ancient Chinese art, covering a long period - from the primitive era to the times of the emperors of the Qing and Ming. A significant part of the collection it belongs to the last imperial dynasty.

Subject of museum collections is diverse collections of wall prints, calligraphy, painting, embroidery, handicrafts, scrapbook lords, ancient Chinese decoration and furniture, printing, jade, coins of different eras and times, bamboo, bronze and jade statues of Buddha, rings and snuff and many many others.

In addition to historical articles in the Art Museum also contains masterpieces of different masters Xu Beihong, Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, etc. Also, the museum is known for relics like bronze and jade figurines times Zhou and Shang Yin, the oldest articles of porcelain and enamels, carved lacquer ware, carved with elephant tusks, etc.

The temple is very famous in Beijing and in August 1979 he was named "key asset". The museum has another name - "the pearl of Chinese art," because there is demonstrated the essence of Chinese culture, as well as for the fact that it contains some rare instances achievements of civilization in general.