Museum of West Zhou Yandu RelicsⅡ

The Museum of West Zhou Yandu Relics is built to the east wall of the site of the West Zhou Yandu Relics, covering an area of 1.8 hectares (4.4 acres). The main color of this traditional Chinese building is reddish-brown, standing for the aesthetic awareness of the Western Zhou people. The walls of the four sides are, without exception, as white as moonlight. This kind of coordination of color makes the museum a serious and magnificent, holy place. In front of this museum stands a huge screen wall with a marble surface, at each side of which are two pavilions.

The main theme of the display in this museum is the splendid culture of ancient Beijing. The museum comprises four units: seven exhibition halls, cultural relics' storerooms, two groups of Yandu graves preserved as original as possible, along with two pits of chariots and horses where the slaves were buried alive, along with the dead. Displayed in the exhibition halls are bronze sacrificial vessels, wine sets, and weapons. Pottery, jade, and lacquer are also on show. These exhibits mainly introduce this ancient city to the visitor and display the cultural relics excavated from the graves of the Western Zhou nobles.