Thanks to nearly a year of planning, the Forbidden City Publishing House is about to launch the first product that mixesphysical objects and digital space－I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City, the Museum's first interactive AR metaversee-publication.

Upon the introduction, peoplewho loves the Forbidden City and traditional skills will be able to enjoyan interesting, professional and interactive metaverse experience through smartphones abouthow ancient buildings in the Forbidden Citywere repaired and revamped.

The e-publicationhasa physical part and a digital part. The physical part meansa bronze-coloured cardembedded with a NFC chip, whilethe digital part is the metaverse spacethat can be accessedthrough a mobile app.

Audiencescan not only get immersed into the historic palace, but alsocomplete the space exploration ofroomyhistorical sitesandlearnancient-building painting knowledge, according to different task lines around 5themes. On top of that, they canact as a virtual royal repairofficer and finish their relics-protection missions by following given stepsand interacting with repairers. At the end of the play, the repairmemorycan be sharedaround to let more people knowthe restoration and protection work of ancient Chinesebuildings.