Palace Museum moves forward on improvements

The Palace Museum is recovering from scandals - ranging from an embarrassing burglary to allegations of cover-ups of damaged antiquities - after a year of effort.

The world's biggest and best-preserved ancient royal architecture complex, the Palace Museum received 15.3 million visitors during 2012. Its website has attracted an average of more than 1 million clicks every day.

Throughout the year, there were six major exhibitions in the museum, while 13 touring exhibitions traveled nationwide. About 170 books were published and 261 cultural relics were repaired. And now the museum's automatic guide device contains 40 languages or dialects. It also has an array of audio guides, including a story version and a teenage version.