A slew of scandals involving the Palace Museum has drawn attention to the plight of China’s public museums The curator of Beijing’s Palace Museum,Zheng Xinmiao,has been a largely low-profile figure,and his name only became known to most average Chinese citizens after the Xinhua News Agency released an interview with him in August,in which Zheng apologized for a string of mishaps in the institution that houses the largest collection of China’s national treasures. A slew of scandals involving the Palace Museum has drawn to the plight of China’s public museums The curator of Beijing’s Palace Museum, Zheng Xinmiao, has been a largely low-profile figure, and his name only known to most average Chinese citizens after the Xinhua News Agency released an interview with him in August, in which Zheng apologized for a string of mishaps in the institution that houses the largest collection of China’s national treasures.