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The local government of Xiamen City and the Palace Museum agreed on Monday to jointly set up a museum in the city, according to the Global Times.
The Palace Museum: Kulangsu Foreign Relics Museum in Xiamen will be built on Xiamen's Kulangsu island, according to the agreement signed by the two parties.
The venue will house part of the extensive collection of foreign relics at the Palace Museum, due partly to the insufficiency of space for all the artworks at the museum in Beijing.
The collection includes several antiquities dating to the 16th to 20th century, several of which serve as windows to the political and cultural interactions between China and foreign countries.
The planned museum will have some of these items on display in order to provide better accessibility to them for visitors.
Shan Jixiang, director of the Palace Museum, said that the Kulangsu museum will create a platform for the artworks and antiques to be beheld by a wider audience as the island is a popular tourist destination.
City officials said that they are planning to make Kulangsu an "island of museums."
The Palace Museum has been housed in the Forbidden City in Beijing since 1925 and features an extensive collection of artworks and artifacts, many of which originated in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
