Germans Score First Show in ‘World’s Biggest Museum’ in Beijing

As China prepares to open what it bills as the biggest museum in the world, the Germans are the first to get a slice of the action in Beijing.

The National Museum of China reopens on Tiananmen Square, near the Forbidden City, in April. A German architecture firm, Gerkan, Marg und Partner, is extending and adapting two existing museums on the site. Berlin, Dresden and Munich, having seen off competition from Paris and London, are lending their treasures for the first exhibition, “The Art of the Enlightenment.”