Beijing Arts and Crafts Museum

Beijing Arts & Crafts Museum (BACM) is located 4th floor of Gongmei Emporium, which is the first professional arts & crafts museum in Beijing. The Museum founds in 1987, is a cultural institute to be originated by Beijing Gongmei Group Company. It presents antiques and national treasures crafted by some of the finest artisans in traditional Chinese society. Four sections cover arts and crafts treasures, national folk art, Beijing folk art, and modern folk art.

Beijing Arts & Crafts Museum collects more than 3,000 pieces fine arts & crafts wares, including prestigious china traditional arts and crafts of "Jade Carving , Ivory Carving, Cloisonné and Carved Lacquer", also collects some handicrafts "gold filigree inlaid ware, antique porcelain, ancient bronze ware, valued embroidery works, gold lacquer and personality Chinese paintings and calligraphy works. If you visit Palace Museum, you may appreciate ancient artists’ masterpieces. In Beijing Arts & Crafts Museum you will look and enjoy the exquisite handicrafts works.

Visiting Beijing Arts & Crafts Museum, it seems marching into the artistic palace. The masterpieces make you full of passion; they are entirely marvelous artistic works. Master Pan Bing-heng`s jadeite carving "Elephant Lei" is with a supernatural story. You may feel that it's a perfect integration from the bronze shape and jade carving. The white jade Jigong Monk is designed and carved by Master Wang Shu-sen, it's praiseworthy by every visitor. Master Liu De-ying is good at carving flower & birds. He created coral "All the Birds Worshipped the Phoenix", attracts everyone. The agate Dragon Plate,is well known at home and abroad. Generally each exhibit shows us that Chinese people's wisdom and talent. The sparkling gold filigree inlaid ware Thousand Hands & Eyes Guanyin,is designed by Master Wang Shu-wen. Guanyin solemnly & serenely put in the hall of BACM. The president Zhao Pu-chu, of China Buddhism Association in person of wrote epigraph "Hong Xiu Pu Yin" for this Guanyin. Master Gao Cong-li, who takes part in wood carving many years,he engraved wood ware is quite superb. He created wood carving Liang Shanbo & Zhu YingTai very successfully, is to be called Chinese edition of Romeo & Juliet. The carved lacquer "Flower-Basket Plate" is enjoyed highly prestige in the world. This is the first three-dimensional lacquer carving works, which is created by Master Du Bingchen. In 1984,this carved lacquer "Flower Basket Plate" is to be awarded golden medal at Leipzig World Expo in German.