Compared with exhibitions such as The History of Chinese Currency in the Wenxing Building, the Inception of Chinese Civilization: Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Publications and Cultural Articles in Wenhua Hall, and the Light of Truth: Classic Archives Exhibition of Marxism Localization and Modernization in China in Wenhan Ge, the exhibition Banben Linlang (an exhibition of excellent book editions since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949) provides a feeling of familiarity to many visitors.

The exhibition presents about 3,000 examples of dictionaries, textbooks for primary schools and middle school students, New Year pictures, picture books, posters, literary works, early issues of magazines, newspapers, tapes and vinyl records, among others, which have been released since 1949.