Beijing Dabaotai Museum of the Western Han Mausoleum [Beijing]

Beijing Dabaotai Museum of the Western Han Mausoleum is located next to Beijing World Park at Fengtai Distrct, Beijing. As a museum of imperial mausoleum site covering an area of 18,000 square meters, it was built based on the underground palace of Liu Jian (73B.C-45B.C), the Guangyang Qing King of the Western Han Dynasty. The museum includes the demonstration of the underground palace with abundant relics unearthed, the exhibition of imperial mausoleums in Chinese history as well as such interactive activities as the simulated archaeology, the Han cultural recreations and so on.

The underground palace is specially constructed according to ¡°The Standard for Emperors¡± of the Western Han Dynasty, which was called ¡°Zigong, Bianfang, Huangchangticou¡± in Chinese history. The underground palace constructed with hundreds of square meters of precious lumber such as cypress and phoebe nanmu is 23.2 meters long, 18 meters wide and 4.7 meters in depth. Relics like bronzes, irons, jades, lacquer wares, agate ornaments, gold foils, pottery, silk goods are unearthed together with 3 chariots and 11 horses, which are so-called chariots on scarlet-spotted wheels with blue cover specially made for princes and kings. As the only well-conserved large mausoleum site of the Western Han Dynasty in China, the underground palace with chariots and horses is of great significance to the study of Chinese culture and the history of Beijing.