Film Legend Museum - The best cinema museum in Beijing – Arts & Entertainment

www.timeoutbeijing.com — In China, there are film enthusiasts and then there is Cui Yongyuan. Instantly recognisable to almost anyone with a television set in the Middle Kingdom, the CCTV presenter has spent the majority of his life – and a large part of his fortune – collecting some of the most amazing Chinese movie memorabilia on show anywhere in China. Forget the gargantuan China National Film Museum out by Caochangdi; if you really want to see posters, film reels, directors’ chairs and props from some of the most important eras for celluloid in China, you have to take a tour of his Film Legend Museum in Huairou.

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