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Fellowship Project
Mr. Yu Li will spend four months (March to June 2025) at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in the U.S.A., where he will engage in exchange with museum colleagues on conservation techniques for Chinese paintings and calligraphy, observing and understanding how the museum engaged the public through the “Conservation in Action” programme.
Biography
Mr. Yu Li works in the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Department at The Palace Museum specialising in the conservation, display, and research of Chinese ancient paintings and calligraphy. He has conducted multi-perspective research on the Qing imperial collections and the interior painting decorations of the palaces. Mr. Yu is also committed to exploring ways to showcase the results of painting and calligraphy conservation works to the public. In recent years, he has been involved in the preparation for the exhibition “Unlocking the Secrets: The Science of Conservation at The Palace Museum” at the Hong Kong Science Museum and “Pursuing Eternity: Conservation of Museum Collection in China ” at the Capital Museum. He is responsible for curating conserved paintings and calligraphic works, explaining the conservation methods and processes to the public.
Recent Development and Achievement
Mr. Yu Li is currently involved in three academic research projects at The Palace Museum. He has published numerous articles in journals including Palace Museum Journal, Forbidden City and Journal of Gugong Studies, and has won The Palace Museum’s “Scientific Research and Publication Achievements Award” (2015-2019) and “Outstanding Youth Academic Writing Award” in the academic writing category. In 2020, his work was selected for the 600th Anniversary of the Palace Museum cum International Academic Forum on History of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Recently, his thesis on the theory of conservation has been selected for the 19th ICOM-CC Triennial Conference.
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