China Science & Technology Museum

Pick up from your hotel lobby at around 9:00am. Transfer to Beijing Natural History Museum by car. The BMNH(1hour) has total floor space of 24,000 square meters, of which 8,000 square meters are available for display and owns more than 200,000 specimens. The major display area is the Tian Jiabing Building. The collections include paleontology, ornithology, mammals and invertebrates, and include a major collection of dinosaur fossils and mounted skeletons. The BMNH also engages in significant scientific research in these areas.

Transfer to China Military Museum(1hour), the museum's four floors include ten halls, the largest of which is the Hall of Weapons. The Hall's extensive holdings of antiquated weaponry showcase domestic and foreign weapons, including blades, small arms, artillery, tanks, armored personnel carriers, anti-air weaponry, jet fighters, rockets and rocket launchers, and cruise missiles. The Hall of Weapons displays equipment from China's space program, such as satellites and a two-seat orbital capsule.

Beijing Natural History Museum:

The BMNH has total floor space of 24,000 square meters, of which 8,000 square meters are available for display and owns more than 200,000 specimens. The major display area is the Tian Jiabing Building. The collections include paleontology, ornithology, mammals and invertebrates, and include a major collection of dinosaur fossils and mounted skeletons. The BMNH also engages in significant scientific research in these areas.

China Military Museum:

One of the Ten Great Buildings erected in celebration of the ten-year anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, construction of the museum began in October 1958 and ended in 1960. As of February 2012, the museum is undergoing renovation work (with only outdoor exhibits, paintings, and plaques viewable).

Lunch at a characteristic restaurant.

In the afternoon transfer to China Science & Technology Exhibition Museum(1.5hours). Return to your hotel.

Science & Technology Exhibition Museum:

China Science and Technology Museum features permanent exhibition organized in line under five themes of displays, namely "Science Paradise", "The Glory of China", "Explorations and Discovery", "Sci-Tech and Life" and "Challenges and the Future", plus many public space display zones; these are also four special-effect theaters, i.e. domed theater, giant screen theater, 4D theater and motion theater. The museum is also equipped with a popular science lecture hall, a number of popular science laboratories and workshops etc.