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Chinese Close Museum Filled with Fakes

July 16, 2013 by Marion Maneker

AFP reports on this Chinese crackdown on fakes:

Chinese authorities have closed a museum which contained scores of fake exhibits, including a vase decorated with cartoon characters billed as a Qing dynasty artefact, state-run media reported Tuesday.
The facility, built in northern China’s Hebei province at a cost of 540 million yuan ($88 million), has “no qualification to be a museum as its collections are fake”, a local official told the Global Times newspaper.
It had been closed, the paper said, while its founders have been placed “under investigation” after local residents accused them of wasting money.

Fox News on Hebei Museum Closing

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