About Us
Established and opened to the public in 2011, Beijing Auto Museum is one of national non-profit museum themed on automobile. Combining the functions of museum, exhibition hall, and science & technology museum, it covers a building area of about 50,000 square meters. From bird’s-eye view, its architectural form resembles a bright "eye ", meaning "look around the world and face the future ".
Beijing Auto Museum sets up three exhibition halls and one exhibition area with the “science-technology-society” topic selection method. It aims to break down the boundaries between country and brand, exhibit the history of the world's auto development in a hundred years, as well as the beginning, development and expansion of China's auto industry, and reveals the great effect of automobile industry on human civilization and social development. Beijing Auto Museum doesn’t follow the conventional way of display, instead it adopts a variety of interactive methods and makes it possible for visitors to see, hear, touch, interact and experience. It vividly presents the endless charm arising from the combination of technology and culture, technology and art, and technology and life. At the same time, from the perspective of the visitors, the Auto Museum has arranged a number of special theme activities with attractive and educational features, including “ International Museum Day Theme Exhibition”, “Lei Feng, Story of An Auto Soldier” Educational Activities, Popular Science Experience Camp for Winter and Summer Vocations, “Story of Military Vehicles”, “Car@City@Man”Series Show etc. Which transform the historical value, scientific and technological value and cultural value of the museum into social values, and realizes the dual experience of visiting a cultural museum and a science museum in one tour.
Beijing Auto Museum, adhering to the concept of "open the door and integrate into society ", actively explores the integration of science, culture and tourism, takes up the responsibility for China's automobile culture research and popular science education as a pathfinder, promotes the harmony and development of "man-car-society " and strives to develop into a demonstration platform for standardization of museum services, a platform for public services, a platform for world automobile culture exchange, a platform for science popularization, a platform for the integrated development of popular science, culture exchanges and tourism. Taking history as a mirror, we serve the present, look to the future, promote the automobile culture exchange between country and country, city and city, car and car, people and people, provide opportunities for people all over the world to share the achievements of automobile technology, technique and art together.
Beijing Auto Museum has been given many honors and titles, such as National Service Standardization Demonstration Unit , National Second-Class Museum, National AAAA Tourist Attractions , National Excellent Popular Science Education Base, China Automobile Culture Promotion Base, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei New Energy Automobile Science Popularization and Experience Base, Chinese Automobile Designer's Home, Beijing Patriotic Education Base, Beijing Citizen Lifelong Learning Demonstration Base, Beijing Elementary and Middle School Students Education Base and Beijing Ecological Environment Education Base. In 2018, the museum won the honorary title of "Advanced Organization in the National Cultural Relics System".
Join us at Beijing Auto Museum and wish more people can enjoy the fruits of automobile civilization.
