Forbidden City shares tech ideas with other museums

Experts from around the world shared their experiences adapting new technologies to museum operations at a forum in the Palace Museum, or Forbidden City, in Beijing.

Managers from world renowned institutions such as the Louvre Museum in Paris, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Tokyo National Museum, as well as domestic facilities like the Shanghai Museum and Nanjing Museum, said they took part to learn about "smarter" measures to protect cultural relics.

The two-day forum, presented by the Palace Museum and internet giant Tencent, began on Tuesday.