The Military Museum of the Chinese people's revolution is the first comprehensive military museum in China, located at No.9 Fuxing Road, Beijing. The exhibition building was built in October 1958, completed in July 1959, and officially opened on August 1, 1960. It is one of the top ten buildings in the capital to present to the 10th anniversary of the national day. In September 2012, the military museum strengthened and transformed the exhibition building, which was completed in July 2017. After reinforcement and reconstruction, the exhibition building of the Military Museum has a building area of 159000 square meters and a display area of nearly 60000 square meters. The main building is 94.7 meters high, with four floors on both sides of the north and the south. The top of the building is equipped with a huge PLA military emblem with a diameter of 6 meters. There are 43 exhibition halls (areas) in the museum.

The military museum is mainly engaged in the collection, research and display of cultural relics, objects, documents and materials reflecting the military struggle process led by the Communist Party of China and the achievements of the people's army construction, as well as cultural relics, objects, documents and materials reflecting the 5000 year military history of the Chinese nation and the world military history. Around the central work of the party, the state and the army, various thematic, current and commemorative exhibitions will be held. Receive visitors from home and abroad. To organize and carry out relevant academic research and artistic creation. Organize and carry out business exchanges with museums at home and abroad. It has 10 middle-level units, including general office, editing and Research Office, publicity and education room, design and art room, collection and storage room, cultural relics protection room, information reference room, security room, Tongzhou branch, Huairou branch. At the same time, there are academic committee, Art Committee and cultural relics appraisal committee.

Collection of cultural relics.The cultural relics collected in the military museum mainly reflect the military history of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, the ancient and modern military history of China and the world military history. The characteristic cultural relics in the collection are weapons, military uniforms, badges and military works of art. There are more than 180000 sets of cultural relics and 1793 sets of first-class products. The collection of cultural relics includes airplanes, artillery, ships, missiles, firearms, ammunition, cold weapons, medals, badges, seals, coins, pottery, porcelain, utensils, clothing, flags, documents, notes, etc. Representative cultural relics include: Qin terracotta warriors, iron Beryllium of Western Han Dynasty, hook inlay of Han Dynasty, copper Hufu of Sui Dynasty, copper blunderbuss of the 11th year of yuanzhizheng period, bowl mouth blunderbuss of the 5th year of Hongwu Period of Ming Dynasty, copper blunderbuss of the 10th year of Hongwu Period of Ming Dynasty, ivory waist brand of Fangjin brand of Dongsi period of Ming Dynasty, ivory waist brand of the Ming Dynasty, gun of the invincible general of Qing Dynasty, iron gun of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, seal of Zuo Zongtang, battle robe of Ding Ruchang, iron anchor of Zhenyuan ship, made by Jinling Machinery Bureau Tongpao, Gatlin machine gun, command knife used in yeting's Northern Expedition, pistol used by Zhu De in Nanchang Uprising, leather leg binding given by Mao Zedong to Yuan Wencai, lion button seal of Helong, the first radio station of the Red Army, seal of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, Red Star Award seal of Zhou Enlai, Tiesuo of Luding Bridge, Jinpeng of "prosperous fan" inscribed by Helong, and Abe killed in battle in Huangtuling Guixiu's mortar, Yang Jingyu's seal, Zuoquan's revolver, the Bayi type horse rifle produced by the Ministry of military industry of the Eighth Route Army, the swords submitted by general gangcunningci, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese invasion army, when he surrendered on behalf of the Japanese army, the first tank "Gongchen" of our army, the key to the gate of Beiping (now Beijing), the North Korean Venus Medal of Huang Jiguang, the MIG 15 driven by Wang Hai Fighters, toumenshan sea battle hero gunboats, U2 aircraft, etc.

By means of allocation, individual donation and transfer of major units of the whole army, the military museum systematically collects the historical and modern cultural relics of our army and Chinese cultural relics, so as to establish the dominant position of the red museum with distinctive military characteristics. In recent years, the way of donation and purchase has been adopted to increase the collection of world military products, and nearly 20000 precious cultural relics (sets) with great collection and research value have been collected.

The cultural relics warehouse of the Military Museum, with a building area of about 18000 square meters, consists of collection warehouse, treasures exhibition room, general ledger room, photography room, 3D data collection room, repair room, weapon maintenance workshop and other functional areas, equipped with constant temperature and humidity system, environmental monitoring system, gas fire extinguishing system, information management system, communication system, security system, which has become a collection of cultural relics management, display and display It is a modern, information-based and specialized collection warehouse with the functions of cultural relics protection, cultural relics information collection and safety protection.

In addition to the basic exhibition, the military museum also holds a large number of large-scale thematic exhibitions. In recent years, it has been held such as "using arms as a God -- Mao Zedong's military command art", "history can't forget -- Exhibition of Chinese people's resistance to Japanese aggression since modern times", "Gutian Conference -- milestone in the history of Party and army construction", "mainstay -- Exhibition of the theme of the Anti Japanese War of the Communist Party of China and its leading people's army", "immortal monument of heroic epic -- Commemoration of Chinese workers and Peasants Red" The theme exhibition of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the long march has been widely praised by the central leadership and the audience from all walks of life, and has a huge social impact. In particular, in 2017, in order to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the people's Liberation Army, the theme exhibition of "bearing in mind the glorious history and creating a great cause for building a strong army -- Celebrating the 90th anniversary of the founding of the people's Liberation Army", which is divided into indoor exhibition area and outdoor weapons and equipment exhibition area, with a display area of 7300 square meters (including 5000 square meters of exhibition area and 2300 square exhibition area), was held There are more than 1100 kinds of pictures, more than 1300 cultural relics, 18 large-scale real clothes, 22 individual equipment, 13 art works, 7 landscapes and 61 models, which comprehensively display the brilliant achievements of the people's army, vigorously promote the fine style and glorious tradition of our army, and highlight the brilliant achievements of national defense and military construction since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Information construction.The portal of Military Museum was launched on August 1, 2010, and the Digital Museum of Military Museum was established. The website has seven first-class columns on Military Museum, information trends, exhibition display, visit service, participation and interaction, collection of cultural relics, research and creation. It publishes military museum information, exhibition notice, visit guide, collection of cultural relics, volunteer recruitment and other information, and provides ticket booking, netizen message, questionnaire and other functions. In order to expand the influence of the exhibition and facilitate the audience's long-distance visit, six basic exhibition online pavilions were successively launched, including the revolutionary war exhibition led by the Communist Party of China, the exhibition of new China's national defense and military construction, the exhibition of weapons, the exhibition of Chinese military history, the exhibition of military science and technology, the exhibition of red memory -- the collection of revolutionary military art works, as well as the "bearing in mind the glorious history and creating a great military career ——Online exhibition hall to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese people's Liberation Army. In addition, in order to adapt to the development of mobile Internet, the official micro-blog and WeChat public numbers have been established and opened.

In 2017, with the opportunity of the reinforcement and transformation project of the exhibition building, the informatization construction of the military museum was launched in an all-round way. Using advanced technologies such as mobile Internet, Internet of things and big data, and in accordance with the reference model and technical standards of the smart Museum of the State Administration of cultural heritage, an information system architecture of "one center, five platforms" has been established, namely, taking cloud computing as the center, building communication platform, service platform, research and education platform, management platform and operation platform. Development of portal, APP client, WeChat public number, virtual museum, ticketing management, public information guide, intelligent explanation and so on 10 sets of application information systems. On the basis of digitalization, intelligent perception, positioning and interaction functions are added to realize online and offline information fusion. Through big data analysis, information push and other means, more refined and intelligent services are provided for the audience.

Since 1985, the Military Museum has edited and published the monthly military history. The journal mainly reflects the comprehensive knowledge of the military development process of China and foreign countries from military history, weapons and equipment, military art and so on.