Time capsule of a country's past
By Zhu Linyong | China Daily | Updated: 2012-07-11 07:58
The National Museum of China dates back to July 9, 1912, when the Kuomintang government's former education minister Cai Yuanpei and his subordinates established the National Peking Museum of History, the country's first public museum.
The temporary venue for the museum was Guo Zi Jian, former Imperial Academy of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
The museum occupied 210 rooms of the old academy, with a floor space less than 10,000 square meters.
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