A mix of science and tradition helps restore relics in China's Forbidden City
A team of about 150 restorers fuses scientific analysis and traditional techniques to clean, patch up and otherwise revive ...
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Emperor and his family move to renovated Imperial Palace
Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Princess Aiko moved out of their longtime residence, the Akasaka Imperial Residence, on Sept. 6. They are moving into the renovated Imperial Palace and ...
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Hidden for centuries, Chinese treasures finally see the light of day
The Palace Museum was established in 1925 by the then ruling Republic of China government, after the last emperor of China, Pu Yi, and his household were evicted. In the decades that followed ...
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Hong Kong’s Palace Museum gives visitors a look at the lives of emperors in the Forbidden City
After many years of preparation, Hong Kong’s Palace Museum has ... painting shows that the busy Emperor values his family above all – a prominent concept in Chinese culture.
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Beijing’s Palace Museum restores thousands of ancient Chinese treasures as it turns 100
The painstaking work to restore ornate treasures amassed by Chinese emperors in centuries past ... protection and restoration department of the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City come as the ...
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Mix of science tradition helps restore relics in China's Forbidden City
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 analysed in a state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction machine that ...