News Article

Largely closed to the public for more than 80 years, the garden’s 27 buildings and pavilions, as well as its rockeries and ancient trees, have been described by one senior Forbidden City official as a “jewel”—and with good reason. Restoring them has been the work of a rare partnership between the Palace Museum, which since 1925 has been responsible for the Forbidden City, and a foreign NGO, the New York-based World Monuments Fund.