Private museums need more money and better management to survive Amuseum sponsored by a village in north China’s Hebei Province has been shut down amid allegations that all is not what it seems when it comes to the ancient porcelain pieces on display. Open to the public since July 2010,the Jibaozhai Museum in Erpu Village,Jizhou City, has 12 exhibition halls full of what it claimed were unique cultural gems. However,the authenticity of its exhibited items had been challenged by renowned China experts.The village museum’s academic rigor went unnoticed until a blog post about a visit to the museum went viral. On July 7,prominent writer Ma Boyong posted a parody Life of Ma in a nod to the famous fantasy adventure novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel implying that the only thing more unbelievable than a castaway sharing a boat with a live tiger was the appalling fakery exhibited at Private museums need more money and better management to survive Amuseum sponsored by a village in north China’s Hebei Province has been shut down amid allegations that all is not what it seemed when it comes to the ancient porcelain pieces on display. Open to the public since July 2010, the Jibaozhai Museum in Erpu Village, Jizhou City, has 12 exhibition halls full of what it claimed were unique cultural gems. However, the authenticity of its exhibited items had been challenged by renowned China experts.The village museum’s academic rigor went unnoticed until On blog 7 July, prominent writer Ma Boyong posted a parody Life of Ma in a nod to the famous fantasy adventure novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel implying that the only thing more unbelievable than a castaway sharing a boat with a live tiger was the appalling fakery exhibited at