Beijing - Xu Beihong Museum

The painter Xu Beihong (died 1953) is famous mainly for his traditional ink drawings of horses which have been imitated many times since. Xu studied in Paris and also used different western painting techniques. The museum was completed in 1983. It is situated south of the underground station Jishuitan and holds 1200 of the artist's paintings and more than 10,000 paintings by other artists which he had collected.