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Hoangho Paiho Museum (Beijiang Museum) 北疆博物院Běijiāng Bówùyuàn
National heritage site · Tianjin, Tianjin
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Tianjin
- Region
- Tianjin
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Hoangho Paiho Museum (Beijiang Museum)
Founded in 1914 by the French Jesuit naturalist Émile Licent and housed in purpose-built premises from the 1920s, the Hoangho Paiho Museum is the forerunner of Tianjin Natural History Museum, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin worked there. Xinhua describes it as the only early Chinese museum whose site, buildings, collections and display cases all survive in their original form, with more than 200,000 items, from animal, plant, fossil and rock specimens to historical and folk relics. It reopened to the public in 2016 after restoration.
How to get to Hoangho Paiho Museum (Beijiang Museum)
On the campus of Tianjin Foreign Studies University on Machang Dao in Hexi District, about 3.3 km south of Tianjin Railway Station; the museum is inside the university's grounds, so check its current booking and entry arrangements before going; it is closed on Mondays.
Nearby
- Five Great Avenues 五大道 under 10 km
Leafy lanes of century-old villas from Tianjin's treaty-port days
Also within 20 km: Former Tianjin College of Industry and Commerce Main Building 天津工商学院主楼旧址 (under 10 km), Astor House Hotel 利顺德饭店 (under 10 km), Quanyechang Department Store 劝业场 (under 10 km), Former French Municipal Board, Tianjin 法国公议局旧址 (under 10 km), Zhang Garden 张园 (under 10 km), Former Yien Yieh Commercial Bank, Tianjin 盐业银行旧址 (under 10 km).
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