Bringing history to life

Fans here may soon get a chance to see valuable collections from top US institutions following an agreement between the Palace Museum and its American counterparts. Wang Kaihao reports.

As the Palace Museum in Beijing stages the ongoing Faberge Revealed exhibition - courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the United States - displaying treasures owned by former Russian royal families, more US museums want to share their collections with their Chinese counterparts.

Last week, at the seventh China-US High Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchanges, professionals from top-tier US museums - The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery under the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington DC, reached an agreement with the Palace Museum in Beijing for closer collaboration.