Our Backstage Pass: June 7th

The last activity I experienced was one of the coolest. Professor Lindsey took Professor Angus and I to see a friend that she knows who works in the Forbidden City. The first thing that I learned that day was how big the Forbidden City is. On our tour during the first week, I only saw the middle; I didn’t see the hundred of buildings that held not only museums but office buildings. Professor Lindsey’s friend worked in one of these office buildings as an ancient art curator. He looked like an average Chinese man, with average clothes and crocket teeth but what he did was not average. He put together art exhibitions that went to the Met in NYC or the Louvre in Paris. He also completed rubbings off of ancient carved plates. We saw that books that he wrote, the rubbings he did and how he made those rubbings.

Not only was that really cool, but we also got a special tour of the museums within the Forbidden City. We went into a museum that the public was not allowed into (that this man helped create) and behind-the-scenes information about all the other exhibits in the museums. It was quite amazing.