The Beijing Art Museum collects various types of artworks from primitive society to Ming and Qing dynasties. The Beijing Art Museum is located in the Wanshou Temple of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Wanshou Temple was built in the fifth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1577). It was a special temple for the royal family. After several large-scale renovations by Emperor Kangxi, Qianlong and Guangxu, it formed a temple, a palace and a garden. The 50-acre royal heavy temple was once known as the "Small Forbidden City in the West of Beijing". The Beijing Art Museum now collects nearly 50,000 pieces of various ancient works of art, from primitive society to Ming and Qing Dynasties. Furniture, coins and seals of past dynasties. It also collects more than 100,000 ancient books from the Song Dynasty to the 20th century.