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Bringing Cultural Relics to Life
Oct 29, 2015An exhibition displaying old royal craftsmanship began on Friday at China's former imperial palace. The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, is displaying 43 sets of cultural relics, including antique clocks, embroidery and ...
Tags: exhibition, Palace Museum, Cultural
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Palace Museum Exhibits Restoration Technique of Cultural Relics
Oct 29, 2015Crowds are flocking to the Palace Museum to see its priceless treasures, and they're paying tribute to the immortals of Chinese art. But now it's time to sing the praises of those backstage heroes who make it all possible - the restorers ...
Tags: Palace Museum, Cultural Relics, Restoration
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Chinese Museums Jump on Coloring Book Bandwagon
Oct 29, 2015Following the success of Secret Garden, the best-selling coloring book for adults, coloring books and products sales have been booming in China. Even The Assassin Nie Yinniang, a film screened in late August, published a coloring album as a ...
Tags: Chinese Museums, coloring books, Bandwagon
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Western Section of The Palace Museum to Open for The 1st Time
Oct 29, 2015Anticipation among history buffs is running high ahead of the opening up of the western section of the Forbidden City. Officials with the Palace Museum in Beijing are set to open the western part of the Imperial Palace compound for the ...
Tags: Western Section, Palace Museum, Open
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First Lady Adds Charming Edge to Diplomacy
Oct 29, 2015Peng Liyuan is more than simply China's first lady. She enjoyed a glittering career as a folk singer from the 1980s. Since President Xi Jinping took office in 2013, she has also attracted a lot of attention from home and abroad. She is ...
Tags: First Lady, Charming Edge, Diplomacy
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Palace Museum's Western Part to Open for First Time in 90 Years
Oct 28, 2015The interior of Shoukang Palace. The western section of the Imperial Palace compound will be opened to the public on Oct 10, the first time in 90 years. This area used to be the place where empresses lived. The large western part ...
Tags: Palace Museum, Western Part, Open
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Stamps Featuring Palace Museum Released
Oct 28, 2015Photo taken on Oct 9 shows stamps featuring the Palace Museum, which were released today by China Post. A staff from Zhejiang Stamps Company shows stamps featuring the Palace Museum. Photo taken on Oct 9 shows stamps featuring the ...
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a Sustainable Legacy: Palace Museum at 90
Oct 28, 2015Established on Oct 10, 1925, the Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, has come to symbolize Chinese culture all round the world. "In the late 1980s, people had to pay one yuan to visit the museum," said former ...
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Royal Treat
Oct 28, 2015From the luxurious bedrooms of the mothers of kings to personal worship areas filled with Buddha statures, the Palace Museum is showing us a different side of imperial China. Deng Zhangyu reports. Visitors to the Forbidden City can now ...
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Full Steam Ahead for Exhibitions Marking Palace Museum's 90th Anniversary
Oct 28, 2015Oct 10 marked the 90th anniversary of the Beijing Palace Museum's founding. Besides opening four new sections to tourists this month - mainly the Cining Gong, the Cining Gong garden and the Shoukang Gong - the museum is holding a series of ...
Tags: Palace Museum, 90th Anniversary, Exhibitions
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Leading Museums Plan Closer Relations
Oct 28, 2015Major museums around the world agreed on Thursday to work closer together to improve urban cultural development and face the challenges posed by new technology at the first Forbidden City Forum in Beijing. Curators, directors and other ...
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a Glimpse of The Upcoming Metropolitan Chinese Painting Exhibition
Oct 28, 2015Following the example of The Precious Collection of the Stone Moat, a special gallery featuring traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting in the Palace Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it will hold a world-class ...
Tags: Chinese Painting Exhibition, Palace Museum, pictorial art
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Major Collaborations Between Top Museums in China and UK
Oct 27, 2015Chinese cultural relics on display at the British Museum in London, Sept 13, 2005. As countries with long histories and profound culture, China and the UK have long been engaged in cultural exchanges. China is home to 4,000 museums, and ...
Tags: Chinese cultural relics, British Museum, cultural exchanges
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Palace Museum to Give Sanitation Workers Free
Oct 27, 2015As winter approaches, the museum will go into its off-season period.[Photo/Xinhua] For the first time, the Palace Museum in Beijing will allow sanitation workers enter its gates for free during the off-peak season, according to Beijing ...
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Palace Museum to Display China's Mona Lisa
Sep 1, 2015The Palace Museum in Beijing will display authentic Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival (Qingming Shanghe Tu) from September 8 to November 8 in an exhibition titled "The Precious Collection of the Stone Moat". One of the most famous ...
