The National Museum of New Zealand recently launched an exhibition of Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality.The exhibition features eight warriors standing 180 centimeters tall, and two full-size horses from the famous terracotta army, as well as
The Forbidden City. On Oct 2, 2012, more than 180,000 people flocked to the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, in Beijing, setting a record for the highest number of daily visitors in the institution's history.Some of them became exhausted a
Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality will feature life-sized warrior figures and two Imperial Army horses
Workers paint the Red Palace, part of the Potala Palace, during annual renovation work following the end of the rainy season in Lhasa, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, Oct 23, 2018. The painting work will take one week. A retiree from the Potala
Yungang Grottoes are a cradle of Buddhist art, playing host to more than 51,000 sculptures. Supported by 3D printing technology, the movable replica of a cave in the Yungang Grottoes, a 1,500-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site, has passed experts' tests
A computer-generated graphic shows the design of the Palace Museum branch. After years of preparation, construction of a branch of the Palace Museum formally kicked off on Wednesday in Beijing's northwestern outskirts.The branch, covering 62 hectares in t
Shan Jixiang, center, curator of the Palace Museum, and Zheng Xinmiao, right, head of the research institute of the Palace Museum, hold up a treasure box at the main ridge of Yangxin Dian at the Palace Museum in Beijing on Sept 3, 2018. Yangxin Dian, or t
A six-week internship project involving college students from Guangdong province and the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, began at the Palace Museum in Beijing on Tuesday.The 48 students, 16 from each place, will be assigned to 11 depar
Workers pull weeds at the Yuanying Guan ruins at Yuanmingyuan, or Old Summer Palace, in preparation for a project to preserve the standing pillars. The surviving remnants of columns and gates in Beijing's Yuanmingyuan - or Old Summer Palace - will be rein
The Terracotta Warriors in the Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum is a must-see in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province. Photos provided to China DailyXI'AN - The Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in Northwest China's Shaanxi pro
TheJiankou Great Wall in Huairou district of Beijing. Intel and China Foundation for Cultural Heritage Conservation reached an agreement on Wednesday to launch a project applying cutting-edge technology in preservation of a section of the Great Wall in Be
The Palace Museum in Beijing signed an agreement with a charity fund run by German automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz on Monday to promote cultural heritage conservation, scientific research and
The Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage released draft guidance for Great Wall renovations on Tuesday, setting different criteria for each type of wall.
Hundreds of years ago, the urge and instinct of self preservation and security made China’s leaders, emperors in the past dynasties, to embark on most daring and arduous measures – the building of walls hundreds of kilometers in and around most capitals a
Beijing plans to recruit 30 junior high school students and train them into becoming professionals at restoring cultural relics for the Forbidden City amid a shortage of such talents, according to Beijing Youth Daily.
