Saru Posted July 18, 2013 #1 Share Posted July 18, 2013 The Jibaozhai Museum in Jizhou has been forced to close after most of its relics turned out to be fake. A Chinese museum has been forced to close after claims its 40,000-strong collection of supposedly ancient relics is almost entirely composed of fakes. Read more... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Merton Posted July 18, 2013 #2 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Authenticity. Now there is a top for philosophers. They argue over beauty and balance and design and taste and style and rarity and of course, that tremendously important concept, provenance. Discover overnight that an object that was the draw of the museum is not genuine and down to the basement it goes, with zeros lopped off its value, even if it once stood on the bedstead of one of the Louis. There is something very rotten in the state of Denmark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Chubb Posted July 18, 2013 #3 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Museum in China found to be full of fakes Is this really a surprise to anyone? Classic 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted July 18, 2013 #4 Share Posted July 18, 2013 every dinosaur skeleton you see in museums (by far the most popular attractions) is a fake, but no-one's asked the Natural History Museum to close its doors have they....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted July 18, 2013 #5 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Is this really a surprise to anyone? Classic . it IS kind of ironic isn't it Chubb! . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Chubb Posted July 18, 2013 #6 Share Posted July 18, 2013 . it IS kind of ironic isn't it Chubb! . I was going to go with ironic, I think 'kind of ironic' is spot on. Either way you just couldn't make it up... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrooma Posted July 18, 2013 #7 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Either way you just couldn't make it up... . oh, i dunno Chubb, something tells me the chinese could make it up quite easily. in large quantities. very cheaply. :-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Chubb Posted July 18, 2013 #8 Share Posted July 18, 2013 . oh, i dunno Chubb, something tells me the chinese could make it up quite easily. in large quantities. very cheaply. :-) But it would only fall apart after a week... Funnily enough I have just bought a Game of Thrones DVD on Ebay only to discover its fake. Waiting for the seller to respond, might take a while... I might just take the hit and forward it on to the museum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ancient astronaut Posted July 18, 2013 #9 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Karma in action. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted July 18, 2013 #10 Share Posted July 18, 2013 So basically what we have here are some cheap Chinese knock-offs? I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted July 18, 2013 #11 Share Posted July 18, 2013 "Residents in the nearby village of Erpu had long argued the party boss who oversaw the collection bought fake items with money raised for the museum, the Global Times said on Tuesday." How do they know he bought fakes. Maybe he bought the real items and had "amazing reproductions" made over time and sold the originals on the black market. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted July 18, 2013 #12 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Authenticity. Now there is a top for philosophers. They argue over beauty and balance and design and taste and style and rarity and of course, that tremendously important concept, provenance. Discover overnight that an object that was the draw of the museum is not genuine and down to the basement it goes, with zeros lopped off its value, even if it once stood on the bedstead of one of the Louis. There is something very rotten in the state of Denmark. The museum should have asked for a certificate of authenticity from the seller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted July 18, 2013 #13 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Fakes? Sure, but they're still "Made in China", right? :passifier: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d e v i c e Posted July 18, 2013 #14 Share Posted July 18, 2013 One of the exhibits has a little smiley face character on it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odds Posted July 19, 2013 #15 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Everyone has made the same joke, but i litereally laughed when i read the titile and though 'counterfeits from China... couldn't be!' Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An0n1m0us Posted July 20, 2013 #16 Share Posted July 20, 2013 "Made in China" I am not surprised that this museum is full of fakes. China is a crap country. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-M7 Posted September 2, 2013 #17 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Are they sure it was museum they were in and not a Walmart? ZING! Oh! Whats the difference between this museum and Walmart? NOTHING! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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