The National Museum of China (中国国家博物馆) is an art and history museum located on the eastern side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The National Museum of China has a total construction area of about 200.000 square meters, a collection of more than 1.4 million items, and 48 exhibition halls. It is the museum with the largest single building area in the world and the museum with the richest collection of Chinese cultural relics. The museum, covering Chinese history from the Yuanmou Man of 1.7 million years ago to the end of the Qing dynasty, has a permanent collection of 1,050,000 items, with many precious and rare artifacts not to be found in museums anywhere else in China or the rest of the world.

Below is a selection of photos taken during a visit to the National Museum Of China on December 18, 2013. Click on a small photo for a larger view, then select the next one with the cursor keys or the arrows on either side of the photo.