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Art News: China's Museum Boom, Take Two

By David Schonauer   Thursday January 8, 2026

China is seeing a museum boom, after learning some hard lessons from the missteps of its first museum surge a decade ago.“In [China’s] headlong pursuit of growth and modernity, officials around the country had funded grand new museums,” notes The Economist. “Many sat empty. Today, China is again in the …

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