Military Museum of the People's Revolution

Beijing


Bristling with Cold War–era planes, guns and bombs, this cavernous museum shows China at its most hawkish. Expanded in 2018, many of the side exhibits were yet to open at time of research, but if they are anything like the museum's former Hall of Agrarian Revolutionary War and the Hall of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, then it will remain a tour de force of communist spin.

Transportation

  • subway: Lines 1, 9 to Military Museum, exit A

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