After about two years’ preparation, the Palace Museum’s new ceramics gallery is to open to the public in Beijing on Saturday. The new gallery, in the Hall of Martial Valor (Wuying Dian), on the west side of the museum, is displaying over 1,000 highlighted Chinese ceramics ranging from 8,000 years ago to the early 20th century. The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, was the imperial palace from 1420 to 1911 during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. It houses over 1.86 million cultural relics, about 370,000 of which are ceramics, mostly from royal families’ collections. “In recent years, ceramics researchers at the Palace Museum have made lots of academic discoveries through studies of such an abundant collection,” Wang Xudong, director of the museum, said at the opening ceremony of the gallery on Friday. “Through comparative studies with new archaeological discoveries and methods of new technologies, many questions have been resolved,” he said. “And it’s a good chance to better display these achievements to the public, and thus honor the excellence of Chinese ceramics culture.” Lyu Chenglong, chief curator of the exhibition at the gallery, said that after the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the outer… Read full this story
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