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• Evening of Lantern Celebrations at the Forbidden City

  Celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival is called Yuanxiao jie in Chinese and was known as Shangyuan jie in ancient times

  Updated: 2019-02-20

• Celebrating the Spring Festival with Time-Honored Chinese Brands

  In celebration of the Year of the Boar (the jihai year), the Palace Museum presents an exhibition called "Celebrating the Spring Festival at the Palace Museum w

  Updated: 2019-02-19

• Restrooms Upgraded as Part of Nationwide Campaign

  In order to implement the directives of the national “Restroom Revolution” campaign to upgrade public restroom facilities, the Palace Museum is curr

  Updated: 2019-02-19

• Temporary Closure and Relocation: The Gallery of Clocks

  In accordance with the Museum's exhibition planning, the Hall for Ancestral Worship (Fengxian dian), currently hosting the Gallery of Clocks, will be converted

  Updated: 2019-01-12

• Qing Opera Folios Discovered in the Hall of Mental Cultivation

  At 1:30 in the afternoon of January 9, 2019, workers discovered two opera folios between sculpted bricks and the interior column (jinzhu) supporting the eaves o

  Updated: 2019-01-09

• Hours during the Spring Festival Holiday 2019

  The Palace Museum will be closed full day on 4 February 2019, the eve of the Spring Festival. From 5 to 10 February, the Museum opens from 8:30 to 16:30 with th

  Updated: 2019-01-07

• Access to Passageway Along the Ramparts Between the Museum’s Eastern and Northern Exits Opens at the Beginning of 2019

  As new measures for the New Year, the passageway inside the city moat along the ramparts between the Palace Museum’s eastern exit, the East Prosperity Gate (Do

  Updated: 2018-12-31

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  North Museum Project Officially Launched on the Palace Museum’s 93rd Anniversary

  10 October 2018—On the ninety-third anniversary of the establishment of the Palace Museum, the Museum’s administration officially commenced the North Mus

  Updated: 2018-10-11

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  The Palace Museum has officially opened the first Baby Care Room

  19 September 2018 – The Palace Museum has officially opened special facilities for nursing mothers and mothers with infants or toddlers. This Baby Care Ro

  Updated: 2018-09-27

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  Conservation Work Officially Begins at the Hall of Mental Cultivation

  On September 3, 2018, the opening ceremony was held for the beginning of conservation work as part of a major step in the “The Hall of Mental Cultivation

  Updated: 2018-09-03