New National Museum of China opens to public

The photo shows the inside the newly-built National Museum of China, which opened on March 1.

After three years of repairs and renovations, the new building of the National Museum of China was formally opened to the public today, and it is now the largest of its kind in the world.
The new museum, which covers an area of 200,000 square meters with a 20,000-square-meter green roof, required investments totaling 2.5 billion yuan and is expected to receive more than 10 million visitors annually.
The newly-built National Museum of China possesses more than 1 million cultural and historic relics and has three floors of north-south symmetrical exhibition halls. It has 49 exhibition rooms, each of which is 1,000 square meters wide and 40 meters tall. The splendidly decorated art gallery along the north-south axis has a length of 330 meters.