Exquisite artefacts from Beijing's Forbidden City to be exhibited at Athens museum
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People view exhibits during the exhibition titled "From the Forbidden City: The imperial apartments of Qianlong" at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, on Sept. 12, 2018. A rare exhibition on China's Emperor Qianlong is going on display at the Acropolis Museum, with exquisite artifacts that will be presented for the first time to the public from Sept. 15 to Feb. 14, 2019, the museum said on Wednesday. [Photo: Xinhua]
A rare exhibition on China's Emperor Qianlong is going on display at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, with exquisite artefacts that will be presented for the first time to the public from Sept. 15 to Feb. 14, 2019, the museum said on Wednesday.
The exhibition, under the title "From the Forbidden City: The imperial apartments of Qianlong", is organized by the Acropolis Museum in cooperation with the Palace Museum of Beijing.
It boasts 154 exquisite works of art, ceremonial robes, furniture and functional objects from the emperor's private apartments at the Palace of Many Splendors (Chonghua Gong).
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