Your key to the Forbidden City and other tips for visiting Beijing's landmarks
Info
Area: South Beijing
Address: 126 Tianqiao Nan Dajie, Chongwen
Opening: 8.30am-4pm daily
Phone: 6702 4431
Admission: RMB 30; RMB 15 children
Credit cards: AmEx, DC, MC, V
Other sights in this neighbourhood
Museum of Natural History
Race a bike against your choice of dinosaur, pose for a photo next to a T Rex’s foot and put together a dino-bone jigsaw: this museum is full of hands-on fun for children. Only a few of the exhibits sport English- language signs, but the fine displays ameliorate this drawback. The third floor famously houses three pickled human cadavers wearing hoods that look like the victims of a botched kidnapping.
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