Weekend Project: Explore China’s Forbidden City

IBM and China’s Palace Museum have created an exact replica of the 178-acre Forbidden City with numerous buildings and artifacts in meticulous details.

All you need to do is to download this program. Dress up your avatar with  Qing Dynasty-era robes and start exploring the complex, don’t forget to drill down in more details.

This is a wonderful educational journey of the Forbidden City, the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. For almost five centuries, it served as the home of the Emperor and his household, as well as the ceremonial and political centre of Chinese government.

Built from 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 surviving buildings with 8,707 bays of rooms and covers 720,000 square meters. The palace complex exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture, and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987, and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.

[Via TechCrunch]

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