Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace ... Tiananmen Square at the epicenter of Beijing. Beyond its towering ...
In a Forbidden City studio, workers wearing latex gloves pored over precious historical relics, gently dabbing and buffing to ...
In the early 1930s, before Japanese forces swept across China, Palace Museum authorities packed up many pieces – including imperial thrones – and moved them out of Beijing to other cities.
The museum of imperial relics founded in the Forbidden City in 1925 has retrieved stored artefacts to restore and eventually put on show Depicting Taoist deities in a misty landscape, a Qing dynasty ...
Efforts to preserve and display China’s imperial treasures highlight President Xi’s focus on cultural heritage.
The painstaking work to restore ornate treasures amassed by Chinese emperors in centuries past has accelerated in the past decade amid President Xi Jinping's push to preserve China's heritage and ...