The Silk Museum was part of our tour. We were to learn about how silk is made. Afterwards, there are shops available to purchase pure silk items. We purchased some beautiful items there. Just make sure that you bargain with them for the best deal.

This place is a scum. They force tourist to see it as part of organized tours to the great wall. A short show how to make silk and the try to make you do shopping. Prices much more expensive than outside shops and quality weak. Unless you want to spend 800 Usd for a bad sheet then A perfect pace... More

I don't consider this a museum but is still an interesting place to learn how silk is made. A guide escorted us to several displays of the silk making process and explained each step. We were allowed to touch the cocoons and feel the silk thread. They specialize in making silk comforters so they showed us the process of making... More

This place is very interesting and official. Surely it's more expensive than other places, but I'll get REAL SILK. And also you can learn the whole process of silk making! You will only be able to bargaing a little, not as much as everywhere else in Beijing