Depicting Taoist deities in a misty landscape, a Qing dynasty lacquer panel inlaid with jade and agate is among thousands of artefacts pulled out of museum ... palace in the heart of Beijing.

Cining Gong (Palace of Compassion and Tranquility), the key site in the western wing, will be opened as the museum's first exhibition hall specifically for ancient sculptures. But Shan confessed ...

Editor's note: The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, has been frequently included in foreign leaders' itineraries while they visited Beijing in recent decades. Media reports say ...

Beijing’s Palace Museum, located in the heart of the Forbidden City, contains the world’s largest collection of Chinese art, spanning nearly 5,000 years of history. Now, more than 900 of those ...

The Hong Kong Palace Museum announced on Monday that it would hold a special exhibition, called "The Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles: China-France Cultural Encounters in the 17th and ...

Director of the Palace Museum Wang Xudong addresses the signing ceremony at the Palace Museum in Beijing, capital of China, March 13, 2023. The Palace Museum and Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe signed a ...

The National Palace Museum holds more than 690,000 items. More than 80% of them are from China's last dynasty, the former Qing court, which was overthrown in 1911. Advertisement ...

Beijing, May 20 (IANS) The Palace Museum in Beijing also known as the Forbidden City has launched a new app in which users can learn about it through building their own imperial residence.

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.

Nine top-grade national treasures from Beijing’s Palace Museum will go on display alongside historical artefacts from the Palace of Versailles in Paris as part of a 150-item exhibition in Hong ...

Kunqu opera performers Li An (L) and Yu Bin enact in an excerpt of the traditional repertoire Palace of the Eternal Youth at the Palace Museum in Beijing, capital of China, March 13, 2023.