College students build miniature Palace Museum on a wooden board

Six Dalian Minzu University undergraduates are building a wooden miniature of the Palace Museum at a scale of 1:1000. The museum, also known as the Forbidden City, is the largest imperial architecture complex and collection of wooden construction in the world.

It covers an area of 720,000 square meters, and has more than 70 palaces and 9,000 rooms, large and small. With the wooden board of about 1.5 meters by 1.2 meters, the students give a full view of the Palace Museum: the Taihedian or the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Meridian Gate, walls and moat, and even the windows and steps are clearly visible.