Forbidden City showcasing royal furniture

As part of efforts to display more cultural relics in the Palace Museum in Beijing, the public will soon have access to Nandaku, or "the Grand Southern Warehouse", as a permanent exhibition hall for royal furniture from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the museum's director, Shan Jixiang, has announced.

The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, was China's palace from 1420 to the fall of the monarchy in 1911, and Nandaku was the biggest warehouse in the palace during the imperial years.

According to Shan, around 6,200 pieces of furniture had become scattered in more than 80 halls all over the Forbidden City.