Beijing Dabaotai Xi Han Dynasty Tomb Museum （大葆台西汉墓博物馆）

Beijing Dabaotai Xi Han Dynasty Tomb Museum is located in Fengtai District near Beijing World Park and has an area of 18,000 square meters. It is a unique imperial site museum. It was built more than two thousand years ago on the site of the underground palace of Liu Jian (73 B.C. to 45 B.C.), who was Guanyanqing Feudal Prince during the Western Han Dynasty. Its main exhibition contents include the underground original site, unearthed cultural relics and the Exhibition of China Mausoleums for the Emperors of different dynasties. It also includes a number of projects in a unique style, such as an archaeological study simulation, as well as amusement activities related to Han Dynasty Culture and etc.

Features: The underground palace is very large in scale, and its construction is special. It was built with the "System of the Sons of the Heaven", in mind, namely the highest level funeral specific system used by the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty. It is known as the "Xin Palace, Bian House and Huangchangticou". The whole palace was built using several hundred cubic meters of cypresses and chinaberries. Its length from its south to north is 23.2 meters, while the width from east to west is 18 meters and it is 4.7 meters beneath the earth’s surface. Three carriages and eleven horses are buried together in the tomb channel. They were both real carriages and horses for practical use. According to historical records, they are "carriages with red spotted wheels and green covers" designated for the prince and dukes. The site features more than one thousand unearthed cultural relics, which include: copper ware, iron ware, jade ware, agate utensils, golden leaf, pottery and textile products. The palace site and the carriage and horse relics are precious artifacts which have been used to study China’s Han Culture and the history of Beijing, and the site museum is the sole largest scale Han Tomb site in complete condition preserved in its original state in China.