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 National MuseumCHINA’S National Museum reopened yesterday with state-of-the-art facilities after nearly four years of renovations.The museum was expanded to 191,900 square meters with 49 exhibition rooms, making it one of the largest museums in the world. Four years ago, the museum was a national embarrassment. Visitors to the building, on the eastern side of Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, had to make their way through a maze of poorly lit exhibition halls, leaking toilets and crowded hallways with mould around the doors. But what disappointed many visitors most were the museum’s collections. Of more than half a million items available for display, one-third were coins»é¼†ÍíÑb. Many provincial museums, such as those in Shaanxi and Henan, had bigger and better collections. The museum now has a collection of more than 1 million cultural relics, according to the museum’s official Web site. One of the most valuable collections is the Si Muwu bronze quadrate vessel, 1.33 meters high and weighing 833 kilograms, dating back about 3,500 years. From yesterday to March 16, the museum is only open to visitors in groups but from March 17 it will be open to groups and individual visitors. A maximum of 3,000 visitors will be allowed in each day — 2,000 visitors in groups and 1,000 individuals. Group visitors will need to book in advance while individuals can get tickets at the entrance. The museum will host two regular exhibitions, one featuring ancient China and the other, titled the Road of Rejuvenation, about Chinese history since the Opium War in 1840, said Huang Chen, a publicity official at the museumäNš§·þ„Õ. Admission for the two exhibitions was likely to be free, he said. The renovations started in March 2007 and were completed at the end of last year. The entire project cost 2.5 billion yuan (US$367 million)Mosquito Screen.
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