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  When Tradition Meets the Future: The Palace Museum Celebrates International Museum Day with Seven Themed Events

  18 May 2019 is the forty-third International Museum Day. The Palace Museum has organized seven events surrounding this year's theme "Museum as Cultural Hubs: Th

  Updated: 2019-05-18

• "Discovering the Hall of Mental Cultivation: A Digital Experience" Touring Exhibition Successfully Launched

  The touring exhibition "Discovering the Hall of Mental Cultivation: A Digital Experience" was successfully launched on April 19, 2019 at the Palace of Establish

  Updated: 2019-04-19

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  Auction of Spring Festival Lanterns Benefits Poverty-Stricken Areas

  As part of the Palace Museum’s 2019 “Celebrating the Spring Festival in the Forbidden City” exhibition and museum-wide décor, the Museum’s

  Updated: 2019-03-15

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  Exhibitions for the Sixth Centennial of the Forbidden City

  Preceded by celebrations in 2019 of the seventieth anniversary of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the coming year of 2020 will mark the 60

  Updated: 2019-03-04

• 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