Beijing Baigongfang Handicraft Museum

Beijing Baigongfang Handicraft Museum is a traditional handicraft protection base. Located in No.12B, Guangming Road, Chongwen District, Beijing, it is three kilometers from the center of the city.

It serves to display the techniques and varieties of traditional handicraft practiced in court and among common people, including many items of state-level or municipal-level intangible cultural heritage. In 2003, Mr. Eric Duruque, head of the International Federation of Popular Travel, inscribed for it the following words: “This is the Louvre of the People's Republic of China”.

Each dynasty, from Yuan to Qing, that chose Beijing as its capital, had set up an official organ to supervise the making of handicrafts for the imperial family. Called different names in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, the organ recruits from all over the country best handicraftsmen to set up in Beijing a workshop in which to show their skills for the emperor. The workshop was known among common people as “Baigongfang”, or Workshop of a Hundred Kinds of Handicraft. The name is adopted for the base for protection of traditional handicraft in Beijing to carry on that tradition.

The workshop features a handicraft museum that centers round a master studio. It focuses on protecting endangered handicraft techniques, procedures, and varieties. It is staffed by a constellation of handicraft masters from Beijing and other parts of the country as well as disciples of deceased masters that were formerly scattered far and wide. It shows its collection of typical works reflecting a variety of techniques, styles, and schools. It is a “living” museum in that it demonstrates handicraft techniques.

Address:No.12B Guangming Road, Chongwen District, Beijing

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