By
Wynn Harrison -- July 29, 2010
The Peabody Essex Museum is bringing Beijing's Forbidden
City to Salem, Massachusetts. This exhibit is attributed to an international
partnership between The Peabody Essex Museum, the Palace Museum in Beijing, and
the World Monuments Fund.
This Forbidden City was closed off from the public for 86
years after China's last Emperor was forced out. This will be the first time
that anyone will be able to see what the treasures of the Quianlong Emperor.
"The Emperor's Private Paradise is an
exceptionally important exhibition for PEM and the art world at large," said
PEM Executive Director and CEO Dan Monroe. "The 90 works featured were
personally chosen or commissioned by the Quianlong Emperor, who was by many
measures the most powerful man alive during the 18th century, for
installation in his private garden palace and have never before been seen
publicly inside or outside of China."
