Wang is also the museum's executive director of a program called Initiatives in Asia. He says Chinese visitors were a rapidly growing international audience group at the museum last year.

He says the exhibition and the course together will shed new light on the research on the aesthetic value of Chinese bronze housed abroad and how the items have been passed down generations.

Kou Qin, board chairman of the Guardian Education Center, says that besides the international program they will also offer courses on other art genres, such as classical Chinese painting, in cooperation with local cultural institutes.

The center will also hold another course, on weekends from April to June 2018, introducing ink-brush masters of 20th-century Chinese art.