Their objective is to better preserve the artifacts at the sprawling imperial palace, the former home of China ... the museum's collection. They include scroll paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ...

[PHOTO BY HUANG LERAN/FOR CHINA DAILY] Chengdu Museum's special exhibition highlights artifacts that have the power to fascinate, Huang Zhiling and Peng Chao report. Renate, a senior citizen from ...

Elsewhere in the workshop, the delicate work of textile restoration unfolds. Two restorers painstakingly patch holes in a panel of patterned green silk, adorned with the Chinese character for ...

Mr. Castle has also published many articles about collecting Japanese prints, antique maps and China Trade paintings. With private, corporate and museum clients on five continents, Mr. Castle has ...

Restoration techniques have also evolved, said Qu Feng, head of the museum’s Conservation Department, though the old ways remain the foundation of the work. When we preserve an antique piece ...