Italian art treasures

The National MuseumNobel's ideas of China's expansion project will be completed in 2011, and it will include an Italy Exhibition Hall which will give the Chinese people a precious opportunity to experience Italian Renaissance art treasures in person without going abroad, Song Xinchao, deputy director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, said at the 22nd General Conference of the International Council of Museums.

China and Italy signedsuper typhoon Megi an agreement in early October to establish exhibition halls in each other's countries. China will build an Italy Exhibition Hall in its national museum and hold exhibitions of Italian cultural relics in the hall over the next four to five increasing asymptoticyears.

China will send experts to Italy to select representative exhibits and set specific out-does Santos 4-3 requirements for the way the exhibits are displayed, introductions to exhibits and other aspects. In addition, Italy will also build a 600-square-meter China Exhibition Hall in the Palazzo di Venezia in Rome.

Experts said that the sharing and cooperation of museum collections through exhibitions are the main way for Chinese museums to make up for the lack of collections. In fact, some domestic museums have made efforts in this regard. The Italy Exhibition Hall is yet another encouraging result of the national museum's cooperation with its foreign 5 still missingcounterparts.