The National Culture Palace has a building area of 32,000 square meters, with the main building 13 floors and a height of 67 meters. The east and west wing buildings surround the two sides, and the central exhibition hall extends northward. The eaves are crowned with peacock blue glazed tiles, with white buildings and towering towers. The whole building is unique, rich, magnificent and spectacular, with the unique national style of China. It enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad and is deeply loved by people of all ethnic groups in China. 1994 was selected as the top of 50 "My Favorite National Style Buildings" by Beijing residents. As the "first palace" of new China, it was included in the History of World Architecture published in Britain. During the 20th Congress of the International Association of Architects (IAIA) from 65438 to 0999, the National Culture Palace was selected as the outstanding architectural works of China in the 20th century.
The National Cultural Palace is a cultural institution directly under the State Ethnic Affairs Commission. There are nearly 20 departments involved in cultural undertakings, operations and functions, including museums, the National Library of China, the National Academy of Painting, the China National Yearbook Society, exhibition halls, theaters in the National Cultural Palace and hotels. It has many functions, such as publicizing the Party's ethnic policies, holding ethnic exhibitions, collecting and studying ethnic cultural relics and documents, providing ethnic books and periodicals, carrying out ethnic cultural exchanges, and undertaking ethnic activities and commercial performances. It is a window for Chinese and foreign people to understand China's national culture.
The purpose of the National Culture Palace is to serve national cultural undertakings, national work and the unity and progress of all ethnic groups. Over the past 40 years, the National Cultural Palace has collected more than 50,000 precious cultural relics of ethnic minorities. There are more than 600,000 books in 24 minority languages and Chinese. National work achievements, national costumes, musical instruments, arts and crafts, masks and other characteristic cultural displays. And held the basic exhibition "China Traditional Culture Series Exhibition", where the achievements of traditional culture and economic construction of nearly 50 brotherly nationalities in all ethnic areas of the country were displayed; Performed folk songs and dances, Chinese and foreign famous songs, operas and other plays; Published national audio-visual products; It shows the national style of food culture ... it receives foreign guests, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese from nearly 100 countries and regions, and receives hundreds of thousands of domestic and foreign audiences, guests and readers every year.
Starting from 1998, the state invested160 million yuan to reinforce and completely decorate the National Cultural Palace. The National Culture Palace consists of exhibition halls, exhibition halls, libraries, hotels, grand theaters, entertainment centers and other institutions and facilities, which integrates cultural exchanges, catering, entertainment and office work, and is an ideal place for economic and cultural exchanges. Among them, the exhibition hall of the National Culture Palace has five exhibition halls of 3400 square meters and strong exhibition organization, design and construction strength. Mainly engaged in organizing and undertaking domestic and international economic and cultural exhibitions and trade fairs; Provide exhibition venues and exhibition equipment rental to all sectors of society; Undertake the overall design and art production of various exhibitions; Organize the press conference of the exhibition; And there are huge billboards to design and make advertisements for enterprises and their products.
The exhibition hall of the National Culture Palace mainly collects the cultural relics of China's ethnic minorities, studies and promotes the excellent traditional culture of ethnic minorities, and displays and publicizes the ethnic policies and ethnic work of the party and the country. It fully reflects the great achievements made in ethnic work since the founding of New China and the great contributions made by people of all ethnic groups in socialist revolution and construction.
Address: No.49 Fuxingmennei Street, Xicheng District, Beijing