Palace Museum limits those viewing famous painting

The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, has set a quota for the number of visitors to its ongoing popular exhibition of landscape paintings to avoid long queues.

The policy, on a first-come-first-served basis, was adopted on Sunday for the exhibition, A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains: Bluegreen Landscape Paintings from Across Chinese History, which opened on Sept 15.

Under the plan, 150 people will be allowed to enter the central exhibition hall of Meridian Gate (Wumen) Gallery every half-hour from 8:30 am to the closing at 4:30 pm, which means a daily cap of 2,400 people.