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THREE-DIMENSIONAL TOURS
A click of the mouse, and the Chinese cultural beginner can take a three-dimensional tour of the 725,000-sq-m museum.
About 200,000 users have registered in the museum's "Virtual Forbidden City" online travel community or "Beyond Time and Space", a project which kicked off last October jointly with IBM.
However, despite many initial registrations, the number of users online is leveling off.
Yang Shuo, a 25-year-old user of the website, said: "It really attracted me at first. But the content is limited.
A digital tour takes only 15 minutes. You have few things to do if you log in twice."
Other users complain that the site is slow in general, and in changing scenes during the 3-D tour.
Guo Weide, manager of corporate citizenship and cooperate affairs for IBM Greater China Group, said: "We hope to make further developments together with the museum."
IBM produced a similar online museum, "Eternal Egypt," based on Egypt's pyramids.
It is "a great pity" that so many valuable artifacts are unknown to the world, and the new website should help change that, Hu said.
"I'm sure the new website could make up for its shortcomings," said Hu. "And after all, the digital technology is a supplementary tool that attracts and helps people to understand."
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