Cultural capital

Wenwangge Museum of Wooden Crafts, Tongzhou district

The museum displays restored historical wooden items with explanations about the culture behind their creation. Visitors can learn about ancient China's carpentry, agriculture, military, weights and measures, weddings and the Grand Canal. They can also try assembling mortise-and-tenon structures, and dismantling small stools and Lu Ban locks. Or they can build unpowered cars, make rubbings of the Chinese zodiac animals, produce ancient-style furniture and create paintings using woodchips and shavings.

Yishengyuan Korean Food and Folk Culture Base, Daxing district

Yishengyuan offers suburban experiences while showcasing traditional Korean culture and customs. It's popular among families and people who drive. It also provides student internships. Travelers can tour the food-processing line with professional guides to understand the history and culture of Korean foods, such as pickles. They can also make and taste certain delicacies.

Beijing Century Yili Industry Tourism Base, Daxing district

The attraction explores the long history of the time-honored brand, Century Yili. Visitors can walk over the old equipment, and the modern bread-and soda-production lines. Guides offer explanations of the technical processes and answer questions. Visitors can bake bread or cakes from scratch under the instruction of master bakers. About 100,000 people visit every year.

China National Film Museum, Chaoyang district

The 38,000-square-meter museum narrates the history of film's development and film production, reel by reel. Visitors can experience rural courtyards, screen syntheses, digital-stunt blue-screen matting, immersive 3D animation and VR "space capsules". They can get the big picture of China's big screen, from shooting to editing, from dubbing to music. The venue also hosts six cinemas. It has received over 4.5 million visits since it opened in 2007.