In a sign of developing cultural links between mainland China and Hong Kong, it’s been announced that Hong Kong will have its own branch of the Beijing Palace Museum. By 2022, a replica of the famous ...

Beijing’s Palace Museum, located in the heart of the Forbidden City, contains the world’s largest collection of Chinese art, spanning nearly 5,000 years of history. Now, more than 900 of those ...

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo visits the Palace Museum in Beijing on January 27, 2026. Screenshot from Orpo's Instagram ...

The museum of imperial relics founded in the Forbidden City in 1925 has retrieved stored artefacts to restore and eventually ...

One hundred years ago today, on October 10, 1925, beneath the Gate of Divine Prowess of the Forbidden City, a crowd gathered in front of a newly hung plaque bearing five bold characters: Gu Gong Bo Wu ...

BEIJING (AP) — It's highly technical work in what looks more like a lab than a museum: A fragment of a glazed roof tile from Beijing’s Forbidden City is analyzed in a state-of-the-art X-ray ...

A cartoon dragon and phoenix are the new mascots of the Palace Museum, Beijing’s center for imperial art and artefacts. The cutesy pair, dressed in Qing dynasty imperial clothing, are dubbed ...

For the first time in 94 years, Beijing’s Palace Museum, commonly known as the Forbidden City, opened its doors to the public after dark – and with spectacular results. The special event, taking place ...

People ride sleds on the frozen Shichahai lake in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 18, 2026. Beijing witnessed a snowfall this ...