If you visit Beijing with your kids, the following attractions may interest your family:

Beijing Natural History Museum - the largest natural history museum in China. Its collection of some 5,000 specimens is divided into three sections: zoology, paleontology and botany.

China Military Museum - The Military Museum is composed of two four-story wings and a main building of seven stories topped with the gilded emblem of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

China Aviation Museum - about 40 miles north of Beijing and located at the foot of fascinating Xiao Tang Hill (XiaoTangShan). On November 11, 1989, it was opened to the public by the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of Air Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. At present, the aviation museum collected more than 200 aircrafts, and weapons including ground-air missile, cannon, radar, aviation bomb. Among which, lots of are the precious cultural relics of the country and world aviation treasure works.

Beijing Planetarium - When it was built in 1957, the Beijing Planetarium was the first of its kind in China. It is located diagonally opposite the Beijing Zoo, composed of a planetarium, an exhibition hall, a lecture hall and an astronomical observatory. The planetarium, with its cupola measuring 25 meters in diameter, is the main focus of interest of the entire complex. At regular intervals, 45-minute presentations take the visitor on a trip through the heavens made possible by projectors installed in the center of the hall which faithfully reproduce an image of the starry sky on the inside of the cupola.

Beijing Zoo - In the 18th century, the zoo was known as the Sanbeizi Gardens, supposedly named after the third son of Emperor Kangxi, Prince Cheng Yin. In 1906, during the reign of Emperor Guangxu, the park area became an agricultural experimental farm and a zoo. Known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Animals (Wanshengyuan), it opened to the public in 1908. At present, the zoo houses over 7,000 creatures of 600 different species, including the giant panda, red-crowned crane and Pere David's deer-all unique to China-as well as the African giraffe, rhinoceros, chimpanzee and antelope; American continent; wild ox from Europe; and elephant and gibbon from India.

China Science & Technology Exhibition Museum - It was officially opened in 1988. And it is the first integrated national science & technology museum in China. The activities include popular science exhibitions, Astro-vision film shows, training-based education programs and experiment-based exhibition programs. The exhibits of ancient Chinese technology introduce astronomy, the compass, gunpowder, bronze smelting and casting, papermaking and printing. The displays of modern science introduce technology-electromagnetism, mechanics, heat, acoustics, optics, nuclear technology and information technology. There are activities organized to encourage the participation of the visitors, encouraging them to explore and practice science via exhibits

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