{"id":120,"date":"2007-08-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/08\/21\/beijing-capital-museum\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T16:00:00","slug":"beijing-capital-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/08\/beijing-capital-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Capital Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less known to the world that Forbidden City is more about architecture; it is the pinnacle of Ming-era royal architectural style.  Its alternative name of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpm.org.cn\/English\/default.asp\">the Palace Museum<\/a>&#8221; will disappoint visitors looking for paintings, sculptures, or ancient artifacts.  For those, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmch.gov.cn\/\">National Museum<\/a>, on the east side of TianAnMen square, is a better choice.  Alas, it is closed for renovation.<\/p>\n<p>\nA hidden gem and a local favorite is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalmuseum.org.cn\/en\/index.htm\">Capital Museum<\/a>; it has rich exhibitions of few hundreds years of Beijing and decent artistic collection.  A casual stroll through all exhibitions will take about 4 hours.  It is a nice break from the heat of Beijing summer or rains that disrupt the scheduled outdoor activities.<\/p>\n<p>There is a special exhibition from Louvre.  I found myself dumb-founded at the beauty and realism of those sculptures.  If you are in Beijing before November, don&apos;t miss it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less known to the world that Forbidden City is more about architecture; it is the pinnacle of Ming-era royal architectural style. Its alternative name of &#8220;the Palace Museum&#8221; will disappoint visitors looking for paintings, sculptures, or ancient artifacts. For those, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/08\/beijing-capital-museum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}