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The Forbidden City goes digital, ditches paper tickets

Since1420,theForbiddenCityhasservedastheroyalresidenceaswellasthepoliticalcenterforChineseemperors.OnOctober10,1925,thepalacetoreoffit'senigmaticmask,openingits

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UK police free driver in museum car crash; inquiry continues

LondonpoliceonSundayreleaseda47-year-oldmanarrestedonsuspicionofdangerousdrivingafteracarcrashoutsidetheNaturalHistoryMuseuminjured11people.Policesaidthemanwasr

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Natural History Museum crash 'not terror-related'

A crash outside a London museum that injured 11 people was not terror-related, police have said.

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Natural History Museum crash 'not terror-related'

AcrashoutsideaLondonmuseumthatinjured11peoplewasnotterror-related,policehavesaid.AblackToyotaPriushitthepeopleoutsidetheNaturalHistoryMuseuminExhibitionRoad,Sou

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Palace Museum opens northern wall

ThePalaceMuseuminBeijing,alsoknownastheForbiddenCity,openeditsnortherncitywallforthefirsttimetothepubliconThursday.Thenewlyopenedsection,some200meterslong,inclu

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Artifacts from Qin and Han dynasties display at National Museum of China

Morethan300preciousartifactsfromancientChina'sQinandHandynastieshavebeenondisplayattheNationalMuseumofChinainBeijingsinceSunday.TheQin(221-206B.C.)andthesubsequ

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Chinese messaging app WeChat joins V&A digital collection

CallingallmobilegeeksinChina...doyouknowyouareusinganartifactfromoneoftheworld’sleadingartanddesignmuseumswhenyouarechattingtoyourfriendsonlineeveryday?Chinesei

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China's digital technology brings Palace Museum back to life

Asoneofthefirstmuseumsintheworldtodisplayitswholecollectionsonline,thePalaceMuseumofChinaspentthreeyearsinbuildingitsdigitalcommunity.Ithasnowrealizedavarietyof

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Palace Museum committed to offering visitors quality services: curator

ThePalaceMuseum,alsoknownastheForbiddenCity,hasbeencommittedtoofferingvisitorsqualityservices,accordingtoShanJixiang,curatorofthemuseum,onWednesday.Hemadetheser

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Palace Museum honors farmer who donated rare cultural relics

A memorial service was held in the Palace Museum in Beijing on Thursday to pay tribute to a farmer who donated rare cultural relics to the museum, reported thepaper.cn.

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Does this museum have China’s coolest gift shop?

The gift shop is an inevitable feature of almost all tourist attractions, but one of Beijing’s top sites has one that really stands out, for both the quirkiness of its products and its financial success.

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Does this museum have China’s coolest gift shop?

Thegiftshopisaninevitablefeatureofalmostalltouristattractions,butoneofBeijing’stopsiteshasonethatreallystandsout,forboththequirkinessofitsproductsanditsfinancia

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If Palace Museum tap into the beauty market

Cultural and creative products of the Palace Museum are back into the public spotlight with an even greater market potential. This spring, an article titled What if the Palace Museum enters the cosmetic world became a hit on Weibo, a micro blog.

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‘Gatekeeper’of the Palace Museum

In the past few days, curator of the Palace Museum Shan Jixiang has been well known on the Chinese social network. He claimed himself as a gatekeeper of the Palace Museum, and he said that his mission is not only to care for cultural relics, but also to expand the cultural influence of the Palace Museum.

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‘Gatekeeper’of the Palace Museum

ByAPDWriterYangSiyaoFornearly500years,theForbiddenCityservedastheemperor’shome.In1925,thenewChinesegovernmentturnedtheForbiddenCityintoamuseum.Inthepastfewdays,

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Spouses of Belt and Road Forum leaders visit Palace Museum

Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, invited the partners of leaders attending the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation to the Palace Museum in Beijing on Monday. [Photo/Official Weibo account of Xinhua]

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'Rock star' Archaeopteryx fossil heads for Japan

One of the true "rock stars" of the fossil world is going on tour for the first time.