Ma Weidu opened China's first private museum in 1996, filling it with antiques bought cheaply in the late 1970s and 80s from Beijing residents eager for cash to buy refrigerators, TVs and washing ...

In a gesture of friendship, Li Wenru, vice-curator of the 83-year-old Beijing museum, agreed to lend Taipei 500 pages of a rare Buddhism lection that it was missing, along with some antique items.

37 museums in Beijing including the ... a large exhibition named "60 Years of Beijing Museums" will also be staged at the museum, Yu added. Well-known antique experts will be present at the ...

The new Beijing Museum, built within vestment of 1.23 billion yuan (US$152 million) reopened on a trial basis Friday, displaying various antiques as well as the old folk culture of Beijing.

The 200-year-old Huguang Guild Hall is the site of this museum, dedicated to one of the capital’s greatest cultural exports. Inside the hall is the museum itself, a small but busy room that documents ...

A visitor takes photo of the silver candlestick holder inlaid with mother-of-pearl from Japan at the new branch of the Beijing-based Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, in Xiamen, ...

An exhibition opened at the Science Museum in London on Thursday, featuring 23 resplendent mechanical clocks, called zimingzhong, on loan from the Palace Museum in Beijing.(Photo: Xinhua) ...

BEIJING — It’s highly technical work in what looks more like a lab than a museum: A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing’s Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray ...

A private museum in Hebei province has been closed after public criticism of allegedly fake antiques on display, Beijing News reported on Thursday. The Jibaozai Museum opened in July 2010 and is ...

Beijing's Palace Museum has since rebuilt its collection. Restoration techniques have also evolved, said Qu Feng, head of the museum’s Conservation Department, though the old ways remain the ...

China demands return of British Museum relics amid stolen antiques scandal. 28 August 2023 28 August 2023 by Agencia EFE. Beijing, Aug 28 (EFE).- ...

BEIJING (AP) - Stuffed into a tiny room off an alleyway are items that Wang Jinming readily admits were put out with the garbage: Paper string, a needle holder, a metal pancake maker built for ...