Palace Museum to build new offshoot for more exhibits

The Palace Museum will build a new museum in northern Beijing to showcase more items, as current exhibits displayed each year account for less than 1 percent of its collection, said Shan Jixiang, curator of the museum.

According to Chinanews.com, Shan made the announcement during the International Smart Tourism Conference in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He said that the Palace Museum, which is a tourist destination and a cultural education institution, cannot display its abundant collection in full.

Major museums around the world usually display about 10 to 20 percent of their collections, while the Palace Museum is able to display just 0.5 percent of its entire collection over about 80 exhibitions each year.