Zhan Tianyou Memorial (詹天佑纪念馆)

Zhan Tianyou Memorial, situated north of Badaling Great Wall in Yanqing District, Beijing, is a memorial which was constructed to memorize a Chinese patriotic railway architect named Zhan Tianyou, who built a special railway at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The museum was open to the public in November 1987.

This museum’s building area is 1,800 square meters or so and was built above the Badaling Tunnel of Beijing Jingzhang Railway, the first railway built by a Chinese people named Zhan Tianyou. This railway was built against the mountain and looks simple. In the museum there is a fresco on which the portrait of Zhan Tianyou has been carved.

This museum collects large amounts of legacy of the railway including replicas of Jingzhang Railway Steel Rails, the copper bells once used on the railway, the samples of the steels bought under application, the drawing devices used by Zhan Tianyou before he passed away, the resume written by Zhan Tianyou himself, the document written by Yuan Shikai to Zhan Tianyou and so on.