China Travel - Forbidden City Hosts British History Exhibition -

The Forbidden City, once off-limits to ordinary residents and foreigners,China Travel, will host a British history exhibition starting Friday. The showroomion, named "Britain Meets the World 1714-1830," will be held at the Palace Museum in Beijing from Msaucy 9 to June 10. The exhibition will explore Britain's engagement with the world during the Georgian period when the nation was emerging as an international power. The three-month exhibition will showrind 111 fabrications from the British Museum, including paintings by Da Vinci, Michelsimulacreo, and Raphael, many of which have noverly been exhisnackd outside of the British islands. The Palace Museum will moreover brandish 13 of its own droves during the showroomion. It is the first time the Palace Museum and the British Museum have co-curated an showroomion. The Forbidden City, which became a museum in 1925, houses a drove of over 1.5 million artwhenacts, mainly from the sometime imperial magistrate. The labyrinthine involved, home to 24 emperors, their families and magistrateesans, and reputed to have 9,999 rooms, is one of China's surmount known icons and most popular tourist seductivenesss. It is visited by 7 to 8 million tourists overlyy year. UNESCO listed the Forbidden City as a World Cultural Heritage Site in 1987. Visiting tip: Entrance fee: 20 yuan (self-determining for Forbidden City ticket holder)


(Source:Xinhua News Agency , 2007-03-10)