The National Museum of China stands on the eastern side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing and holds more than 1.4 million items across 48 exhibition halls, ranking among the largest museums in the world by floor space. The original building was completed in 1959 as one of the Ten Great Buildings marking the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic of China, and it underwent a major renovation from 2007 to 2011 led by the German firm Gerkan, Marg and Partners that tripled its exhibition space behind a facade 313 meters long and 40 meters high, fronted by ten prominent square pillars. Its collection includes the Houmuwu Ding, the heaviest known piece of ancient bronzeware in the world at 832.84 kilograms, and in 2021 the museum ranked second in the world for visitor attendance, trailing only the Louvre.
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountDonghuamen Subdistrict, People's Republic of China 2 Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Sources
1. National Museum of China (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationEntity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article (standing)
The National Museum of China stands on the eastern side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing and holds more than 1.4 million items across 48 exhibition halls, ranking among the largest museums in the world by floor space. The original building was completed in 1959 as one of the Ten Great Buildings marking the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic of China, and it underwent a major renovation from 2007 to 2011 led by the German firm Gerkan, Marg and Partners that tripled its exhibition space behind a facade 313 meters long and 40 meters high, fronted by ten prominent square pillars. Its collection includes the Houmuwu Ding, the heaviest known piece of ancient bronzeware in the world at 832.84 kilograms, and in 2021 the museum ranked second in the world for visitor attendance, trailing only the Louvre.
Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Museum)
The National Museum of China is an art and history museum located on the eastern side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The National Museum of China has a total construction area of about 200,000 square meters, a collection of more than 1.4 million items, and 48 exhibition halls. It is the museum with the largest single building area in the world and the museum with the richest collection of Chinese
View the Source 2. National Museum of China (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (2011)
Wikidata item Q1074318, property P1619: 2011
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Donghuamen Subdistrict, People's Republic of China
Wikidata item Q1074318, property P131/P17 (location): Donghuamen Subdistrict, People's Republic of China
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