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The Palace Museum Palace the 2013 Report Annual the Forbidden City Publishing House City Publishing the Forbidden The Palace Museum The Palace The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 The Forbidden City Publishing House Annual Report Annual 2013 The Forbidden City Publishing House City Publishing The Forbidden 定价: 86.00元 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Director: Shan Jixiang Executive Deputy Director: Li Ji Deputy Directors: Ji Tianbin, Wang Yamin, Chen Lihua, Song Jirong, Feng Nai’en, Lou Wei ※Address: No. 4 Jingshan qianjie, Beijing ※Postal code: 100009 ※Website: http://www.dpm.org.cn Contents Work in the Year 2013 8 ‘Safe Palace Museum’ Project 12 Collection Management and Preservation of Ancient Architecture 20 Exhibitions 28 Academic Research and Publications 46 Education and Publicity 58 The Digital Palace Museum 68 Cooperation and Exchanges 74 Financial Statement 84 Work in the Year 2013 he year 2013 marked the approval and implementation of the ‘Safe We implemented new visitor policies which included closing the Pal- TPalace Museum’ project. While carrying out our routine work, the ace Museum every Monday afternoon and prohibiting cars, smoking and Palace Museum also applied a high level of cultural awareness to this project fire. and its museum construction work, ensuring the sustainable development of cultural heritage conservation. In 2013, the Palace Museum received a total The ICOM International Training Centre for Museum Studies, the of 14.56 million visitors, with ticket revenue reaching RMB 690 million. Palace Museum Academy, and the Palace Museum Institute were established. The ‘Safe Palace Museum’ project was approved and implemented in The Palace Museums in Beijing and Taipei reached a consensus on April. deepening cooperation. The Inventory of the Palace Museum Collection, the result of the fifth in- The Forbidden City Publishing House obtained approval for publish- ventory checking of the collection, was released to the public on the official ing audio-visual and electronic products. website for the first time. Postscript by Zhang Dashan of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) to Ode to an Expedition by an anonymous artist of the Sui Dynasty (581-618) entered the museum collection, bringing the scroll and the postscript to- gether. Work began on several projects: conserving the Wild-goose-wing- shaped Tower (Yanchi lou) heritage building complex at the Meridian Gate (Wu men), rebuilding the carriage warehouse at the Imperial Stables (Shangsi yuan), and building the house for cultural heritage protection and manage- ment at South Grand Storage. 10 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 Work in the Year 2013 11 ‘SAFE PALACE MUSEUM’ PROJECT 12 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 13 and protect the Palace Museum’s heritage buildings. In 2013, we submitted the plan for the project and conducted a review of the project proposal. III. Redevelopment of Infrastructure With the aim of ensuring the absolute safety of cultural heritage and heritage buildings, we sought to redevelop the museum’s infrastructure in order to carry out seamless monitoring, eliminate safety hazards, prevent theft, damage and fire, and strengthen the effective preservation and man- Aerial view of the northern part of the Palace Museum Exterior of the greenhouse agement of cultural heritage and heritage buildings. In 2013, we compiled and reviewed the project proposal for phase 1 of the maintenance and rede- velopment of infrastructure. fter Vice Premier Liu Yandong presided over the meeting to launch Athe ‘Safe Palace Museum’ project at the Palace Museum’s Xiyuhe Base on April 16, the seven parts of the project made varying degrees of progress IV. Monitoring of World Cultural Heritage thanks to the leadership and coordination of the Ministry of Culture. These The Palace Museum World Cultural Heritage Monitoring Centre parts were launched in succession and the results achieved in stages. conducted monitoring work as planned. Monitoring projects fell into two categories: firstly, projects which were approved in 2013, including publish- ing The Palace Museum World Cultural Heritage Monitoring Report (2012) and I. Construction of the Northern Part of the Palace monitoring the dynamic visitor flow, termite and lightning proofing. Sec- Museum ondly, projects which were approved before 2013 and conducted in 2013, Projects in the northern part of the Palace Museum aimed to solve including collection of basic information on outdoor displays. two problems: furniture, carpets and other large artefacts in the collection of the Palace Museum could not be conserved appropriately, and artefact displays suffered from limited space. We also sought to give the public a view of traditional artefact restoration techniques. In 2013 we focused on researching and compiling proposals for these projects. We also finished the construction of the greenhouse at Xiyuhe Multi-purpose Base, and com- menced the garden and landscaping project for the Palace Museum’s Court Gardening Research Centre. II. Redevelopment of the Underground Artefact Storerooms The redevelopment of the underground storerooms sought to elimi- nate potential safety hazards, increase the area used for storage, and vacate The Palace Museum World Cultural Heri- Monitoring temperature and humidity in exhibition hall tage Monitoring Report 14 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 ‘Safe Palace Museum’ Project 15 V. New Palace Museum Security System Security and fire fighting systems were redeveloped, and the wire- less intercom system put into use. Projects for redeveloping the fire fighting system and constructing security facilities were conducted at the same time, and 70% of these projects were completed by the year’s end. We started technological R&D and review of the Access Control System, and made plans to conduct localised tests. We installed security sprayers in some key areas for testing. The redevelopment project for the security system in the Gate of Correct Deportment (Duan men) entered the system debugging stage. 3D data collection on outdoor objects Survey of heritage buildings The new central control room for security at the Gate of Correct Deportment 16 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 ‘Safe Palace Museum’ Project 17 VI. Seismic Protection for the Palace Museum VII. Rescue Conservation and Restoration of the Collection Palace Museum Collection Phase 1 of the cultural heritage seismic protection evaluation was The Palace Museum conducted a cultural heritage restoration project completed. Staff conducted simulated tests of the anti-earthquake capability in collaboration with Dongcheng District People’s Government. In 2013, of movable rack samples and object containers, and carried out a prelimi- we restored ten wooden artefacts, restored a silk tapestry with supplemen- nary survey for Phase 2 of the seismic protection evaluation, testing the tary material, and completed preliminary surveys and experiments for the museum’s capacity to handle emergencies. restoration of the Goryeo knife. In December we held the launch ceremony for a project aimed at building an integrated space for cultural heritage con- servation, including a cultural heritage restoration workshop, cultural herit- age warehouse, laboratory, and photography workshop. Testing for earthquake resistance of structure and cultural artefacts at the Belvedere of Raining Flowers (Yuhua ge) Launch ceremony for the project to construct an integrated space for cultural heritage conservation 18 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 ‘Safe Palace Museum’ Project 19 COLLECTION MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION OF ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE 20 The Palace Museum Annual Report 2013 21 Pasting tieluo reproduction in the Hall of Mental Cultivation (Yangxin dian) Collection inventory released on the Palace Museum website n 2013, the Palace Museum released The Inventory of the Palace Museum categories. We restored 207 artefacts, the movable type edition of the Com- ICollection to the public, with the aim of fully performing our function of mentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu shili) (14 volumes) from serving society, promoting culture and being receptive to public supervision. the Hall of Martial Valour (Wuying dian) and the Jiaxing Edition of the Tripi- The Palace Museum was the first large multi-purpose museum in China taka (Jiaxing zang) (12 volumes). to do so, marking the first step in making information about the museum The following items from the collection were included in the fourth collection public. Over the same period, the museum steadily continued its batch of the National Rare Books of China: the Jianning Prefecture edition of follow-up work on inventory checking of its collection and facilitated con- Four Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu sizhuan) (38 servation, restoration, and acquisition. chapters), together with ‘Outline’, ‘Abstract’, ‘Dongpo’s Commentaries on the States’, ‘Chronicles of Twenty States in the Spring and Autumn Period’ and ‘On the Rise and Decline of States’, published in the eleventh year of I. Collection Management the Jiajing reign (1522-1566) during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644); Po- Museum staff carried out the inventorying and protection of original ems of Previous Ages Selected by the Emperor (Yu xuan lidai shi yu) (120 chap- tieluo (affixed hangings) in the palace buildings. Following collection man- ters), the imperial edition from the 46th year in Kangxi reign (1662-1722); agement requirements, we successfully transferred 461 international gifts. the Nine Scholars’ Collections of and Commentaries on Du Fu’s Poems (Jiu jia ji With the fifth inventory checking
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