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China museum closed over fake exhibits: reports
BEIJING -- A Chinese museum has been ordered to close after thousands of its historical exhibits were found to be fake, state-run media said on Thursday.
Police shut down the Lucheng Museum, in the northeastern province of Liaoning, after finding that almost a third of the 8,000 items on display were not genuine, the Global Times newspaper reported.
Counterfeits on show included a sword touted as dating from the Qing Dynasty and worth 120 million yuan (US$19 million), the report said.
China is on a museum building spree, with 299 new establishments registering last year, according to state media.
But its antiques market is said to be rife with fakes, posing a problem for the country's growing ranks of private collectors.
A Chinese tycoon who has two museums is embroiled in a row with experts from the state-backed Shanghai Museum over the authenticity of a scroll he paid more than US$8 million for at a Sotheby's auction in New York.
China museum closed over fake exhibits: reports - The China Post
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These acts of trying to keep up with the Joneses is what ruins the credibility.
China has excelled in many spheres, but these acts make one apprehensive that there is always a fudge in whatever China does or claims. Sad,
I wonder if these museums and the unabated proliferation of the same are basically there for money making and not to show the real treasure that China has to display.
The Govt should take over the museums and its functioning.
BEIJING -- A Chinese museum has been ordered to close after thousands of its historical exhibits were found to be fake, state-run media said on Thursday.
Police shut down the Lucheng Museum, in the northeastern province of Liaoning, after finding that almost a third of the 8,000 items on display were not genuine, the Global Times newspaper reported.
Counterfeits on show included a sword touted as dating from the Qing Dynasty and worth 120 million yuan (US$19 million), the report said.
China is on a museum building spree, with 299 new establishments registering last year, according to state media.
But its antiques market is said to be rife with fakes, posing a problem for the country's growing ranks of private collectors.
A Chinese tycoon who has two museums is embroiled in a row with experts from the state-backed Shanghai Museum over the authenticity of a scroll he paid more than US$8 million for at a Sotheby's auction in New York.
China museum closed over fake exhibits: reports - The China Post
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These acts of trying to keep up with the Joneses is what ruins the credibility.
China has excelled in many spheres, but these acts make one apprehensive that there is always a fudge in whatever China does or claims. Sad,
I wonder if these museums and the unabated proliferation of the same are basically there for money making and not to show the real treasure that China has to display.
The Govt should take over the museums and its functioning.
