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Location: | Beijing, China |
Type: | Car museum |
Collections: | Automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, and buses |
Collection Size: | 80 (2014) |
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The Beijing Auto Museum is an automotive museum in Beijing, China, which opened in 2011. With 50,000 square meters and 5 floors, it is the largest auto museum in China.[1]
The Beijing Auto Museum began construction in 2006, and the building was completed in 2010. It was officially opened to the public the next year, in 2011.[2]
On May 18, 2019, the Beijing Auto Museum was recognized by the Chinese Museum Association out of over 5,000 other museums in the country as the "most innovative museum in China".[3]
In 2014, the collection of cars in the Beijing Auto Museum numbered 80.[1] However, several of the cars in the collection are replicas, such as the Benz Patent-Motorwagen.[4] Domestic vehicles on display include state cars from Hongqi, military jeeps from Beijing Automobile Works, and replica Dongfanghong and Dongfeng civilian cars.[5]