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Chairman Mao Memorial Hall to Close for Maintenance

Xinhua News, March 1, 2007 - Chairman Mao Memorial Hall is to close from March 3 to September 20 for maintenance, according to the hall's administration. Located in Tian'anmen Square in downtown Beijing, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall was built after Mao Zedong died on September 9, 1976 and completed in May 1977. Since the hall opened on September 9 the same year, it has received 158 million visitors, who came to pay respects to the late Chinese leader. Mao Zedong (1893-1976), a native of Hunan Province in central China, was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of China. He served as chairman of the CPC Central Committee from 1945 to 1976, and he was also the first head of state of the People's Republic of China.


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New Beijing Museum Puts on Maiden Show
Xinhua News, Dec. 17, 2005 - The new Beijing Museum, built with investment of 1.23-billion-yuan (US$152 million) reopened on a trial basis Friday, displaying various antiques as well as the old folk culture of Beijing. The museum, which focuses on life in Beijing in bygone days, covers an area of 63,390 square meters, with a 2,000-square-meter central hall. The reconstruction project lasted four years. "The new Beijing museum has 13 themed exhibition rooms displaying 5,622 items. The collection is the largest in China," said Han Yong, the curator of  the museum. According to Han, 80 percent of the rarities are being showcased for the first time in China. To make it more convenient for visitors, 1,000 computerized-navigators have been installed to give visitors introductions on the exhibited items. Information is also given in English and Japanese. Other languages will be added in the future. The venue is expected to receive 2,000 visitors daily and tickets will be 20 yuan (US$2.5) each for the trial operational period.

New Beijing Museum Puts on Maiden Show
Xinhua News, Dec. 17, 2005 - The new Beijing Museum, built with investment of 1.23-billion-yuan (US$152 million) reopened on a trial basis Friday, displaying various antiques as well as the old folk culture of Beijing. The museum, which focuses on life in Beijing in bygone days, covers an area of 63,390 square meters, with a 2,000-square-meter central hall. The reconstruction project lasted four years. "The new Beijing museum has 13 themed exhibition rooms displaying 5,622 items. The collection is the largest in China," said Han Yong, the curator of the museum. According to Han, 80 percent of the rarities are being showcased for the first time in China. To make it more convenient for visitors, 1,000 computerized-navigators have been installed to give visitors introductions on the exhibited items. Information is also given in English and Japanese. Other languages will be added in the future. The venue is expected to receive 2,000 visitors daily and tickets will be 20 yuan (US$2.5) each for the trial operational period.

Heyuan Museum Listed in Guinness World Records
Xinhua News, Feb. 13, 2005 - A museum in south China's Guangdong Province has earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records with its 10,008 dinosaur egg fossils, the largest collection in the world. An official in charge of cultural affairs confirmed that the city museum of Heyuan, in the northern part of Guangdong, has entered the world-famous record book. (full coverage)

New Museum Showcases Shanxi Culture

Xinhua News Agency Jan. 10, 2005 - A local resident views an ancient wine container dating back to ancient China's Shang Dynasty (1,600 BC-1,100 BC) in the newly-built Shanxi Museum in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, Jan. 8, 2005. 316 million RMB yuan (US$38.26 million) has been invested to build the museum. More than 4,000 pieces of cultural relics are displayed in the 10,000-square-meter museum to showcase the province's rich culture.

Peking Man Skull on Display
Xinhua News Agency Oct. 1, 2004) - The 500,000 year-old Peking Man skull went on display Thursday at the Zhoukoudian Peking Man Museum, southwest of Beijing. The skull is one of the only three in China, according to the Beijing News. Sources with the museum said they would transfer the bone from the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Thursday, where it has been preserved. The exhibition from September 30 to October 14 was to let Beijing citizens have a better understanding of Peking Man, said Yang Haifeng, curator of the museum. Chinese archaeologists unearthed the skull in 1929 at Zhoukoudian, about 50 km southwest of downtown Beijing. At the time, the discovery stunned the world. China has since discovered five other complete Peking Man skulls. Three were lost during World War II and the other two discovered in 1996. According to scientists' research, the 1966 skulls together with the 1930s skull, belong to the same Peking Man, who was middle-aged and has physiological characteristics of modern people. To ensure its safety, the museum has insured 4.5 million RMB yuan (US$540,000) on the bone, said Yang. "The bone is very precious and we will ask police to transport it while two routes have been prepared to prevent potential troubles." said Yang. The museum had exhibited the other of the two existent skull-- a frontal bone-- in 2003 under strict protection.

Museum Shows Vintage Locomotives
China Daily, Aug. 30, 2004 - The long-awaited Shanghai Railway Museum, with locomotives rarely seen worldwide, opened over the weekend to attract train lovers, especially kids who are interested in train technology...

Exhibition Shows Beijing's Architectural History
Xinhua News Agency September 10, 2004 -
An exhibition featuring old Beijing architecture is expected to help reinforce residents' desire to protect cultural relics in the capital city. The weeklong exhibition, which opened on Tuesday in Beijing, includes three major parts: "rebuilding the imperial capital," "recovering the metropolis built in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)" and "repairing the disappeared city gates and walls."


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