Capital Museum

This guide to the Capital Museum in Beijing starts beneath the tilted Bronze Hall, the building's oval centerpiece, and the carved Ming-dynasty stone archway rescued from Beijing's demolished streets that now sits inside it. It traces the museum's own unsettled history, shelved in the 1950s, reopened in 1979 inside the old Confucius Temple, before finally settling on Chang'an Avenue in 2006. Look for the Zhou dynasty bronzes among its more than two hundred thousand objects.