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 visitor tries rubbing a traditional woodblock New Year print at the Prince Kung's Palace Museum in Beijing. [Photo by Jiang ...

This is part one of a series on the people who saved the heart of China’s Palace Museum from ruin. View the entire series here. This year marks the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City’s completion ...

An important part of China’s Palace Museum, located within Beijing’s Forbidden City, reopened to the public on December 26, 2025 after nearly a decade of meticulous conservation and restoration. The ...

After overcoming a rocky start and, more recently, a delay caused by a typhoon, the new Hong Kong Palace Museum—a branch of Beijing’s Palace Museum—is now open in the semi-autonomous city’s West ...

A team of about 150 restorers fuses scientific analysis and traditional techniques to clean, patch up and otherwise revive the more than 1.8 million relics in the collection of Beijing's Forbidden ...

BEIJING — 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 diffraction ...