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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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]
Buckingham Palace is to under a facelift costing 456 million U.S.dollars, it was announced Friday.
Two emblematic Athens hotels which have put their mark on the city's tourism industry for more than half a century, the Athens Hilton and Astir Palace, changed ownership on Thursday.
The remains of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who passed away Thursday in Siriraj Hospital, are set to be moved to the Grand Palace Friday afternoon, local media reported.
The Palace Museum has announced plans to open its western routes on Sept. 29. The royal icehouse, imperial kitchen and Yuqing Palace (the crown prince's residence) will open to the public at a later date. A platform will also open from which visitors will be able to view Jiangshan Park from afar.
If the Chinese emperor who ordered the Forbidden City's construction were still alive, he'd be rapping about his courtly antics and taking photos with an iPhone.
An annual royal culture festival is scheduled to open this week to let Koreans and overseas tourists enjoy the essence of the time-honored culture of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), organizers said Monday.
The kidnapping and brutal beheading of seven civilians including two women and a child by anti-government militants allegedly Deash fighters in the southern Zabul province on Saturday have provoked thousands of Afghans including women to assemble in Kabul on Wednesday to demand justice.
Part of a full-size replica of the Old Summer Palace is about to open to tourists in east China's Zhejiang Province, some 1,000 kilometers from the real Beijing landmark.
State media of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) did not report as usual the traditional visit by top leader Kim Jong Un to the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, a midnight ritual marking the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
Cambodia on Thursday began a three-day elaborate ceremony to transfer the ashes of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk from the Royal Palace to a stupa in the opulent Silver Pagoda.
British Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday embarked on a three-day state visit to France to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Normandy landings during WWII, Buckingham Palace has announced.
China's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, is to renovate an unfinished Western-style "Hall of Water" into a hall for foreign cultural relics, according to the museum curator.
Theme park to be built near site of Old Summer Palace