Chinese Museum Closes As Most Of Its Exhibits Are Fake

[FightingFurball]

Most likely this is intended.
First the land was taken from their poor owners by force via the government officials for a couple of thousand Yuan. Then the museum was built using government funds with the in china usual corruption filling the pockets of officials and industrials alike. Now the building will be abandoned, razed and afterwards the land will be sold to another one of their chums for dirt cheap all while the original owners see nothing of the money.
It's business practice in most of chine anyway...

 

[MetalMagpie]

Don't you hate it when that happens

Nothing worse than finding out your Quing Dynasty vase is less than legit. Happened to me last week

Virtually everything in the museum is a fake.

Bit different to one vase.

I think they're joking around.

Unless Leviano really does have a fake Quing Dynasty vase...

 

[Scarim Coral]

They may aswell renamed the museum Historical knockoff museum, showcasing the history of copyright infrigment and other copy cats stuff.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

Just turn it into a knock-off musuem. Simple.

Consider a career in marketing. That idea is genius.

 

[CriticalMiss]

Does the Museum have a Ping Dynasty exhibit showing ancient Chinese wonders such as these:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1998580,00.html

I'm guessing this is all down to corruption, someone decided to use government money to buy a bunch of fake art claiming it was expensive and pocketed the difference. The reaction of the curator is kind of odd, probably because he is in on it.

 

[LG Jargon]

Gasp! Someone found a whole bunch of counterfeits and knock-offs in China? DO TELL!
Double gasp! There are a whole bunch of corrupt jag-offs in positions of high power in China? DO DOUBLEY TELL!
All right, I'm done joking around...Well, actually, one more: Somebody with half a brain stem found out that that mess of an arts-and-crafts vase isn't a real artifact from the Qing Dynasty? How cooouuuulld they tell?!...Now I'm done.


Captcha: Fatter Wallet. For the museum owners? Doubt it, captcha. For corrupt officials? Mmmm...yeah, probably.

 

[TwiZtah]

Am I supposed to be surprised?

 

[Clankenbeard]

Just turn it into a knock-off musuem. Simple.

Consider a career in marketing. That idea is genius.

Agreed.

I recently went to a wax museum and NONE of the people in there were the actual dead people I was expecting. They were all just wax statues. They didn't even really look that much like the people they were representing. And they weren't life size--like only several inches high. And they were mostly made from paper instead of wax. Hmmm. I may have been in a library.

 

[LostintheWick]

Everything made in China is, well... "Made in China".

 

[Sarge034]

So imma just go out on a limb an say this reporter is gonna "disappear". Tank man "disappeared" and this chick will too for whistle blowing on a state run facility owned by a party leader. Rest in peace you brave soul.

OT- Well, that sucks for them. Also, made in China and all that.