Songzhuang Town is a key featured town being developed in the Beijing Municipal Administrative Center. It serves as a "dream factory" for over 7,000 artists and is renowned as the largest community of artists in the world. With spring quickly approaching, let's check out this "art town".

Songzhuang Art Museum

[Photo via Songzhuang Art Museum]

The three main areas of Songzhuang Art Museum are the exhibition hall, academic hall, and screening room. The museum usually serves as a venue for the performances and exhibitions of contemporary art, as well as international exchanges on contemporary art. The current exhibition: "Invitation from Beijing: Exhibition of Invitation Letters of Contemporary Art 1988-1992" is on display until March 31.

Beijing Dongyun Silk Culture and Art Museum

[Photo via Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism]

Beijing Dongyun Silk Culture and Art Museum's collection of artefacts relevant to the silk culture covers an area of 600 square meters, twice that of the interactive space for the silk experience. The museum has collected nearly 5,000 pieces of art.

Sound Art Museum

[Photo via Tongzhou District People's Government of Beijing Municipality]

The Sound Art Museum is the first museum about sound art in China. Visitors to the "Sounds of Old Beijing" hall can experience sounds of pigeon whistles and percussion instruments used by vendors selling goods, in addition to several physical exhibits including whistles on the tails of pigeons, tangluo (the gongs used by merchants of malt sugar during ancient times) and other sound-producing items.

Beijing Daqi Museum for Radios and Movie Projectors

[Photo via Beijing Daily]

The museum has amassed over 20,000 radios and movie projectors of different eras and models from all over the world, and approximately 4 million antique items involving all aspects of people's daily life from the 1910s to the early 21st century. 

(Source: WeChat Official Account "Wenlv Beijing")