Gao Rui

Biography

Gao Rui has been working for the Department of International Exchanges at the Palace Museum since 2016. He is very passionate about museums, particularly the history of the Forbidden City upon which the Palace Museum was established, and his interest in the study of different cultures was a big motivator in starting his career at the Palace Museum. His main duties include managing inter-museum foreign affairs, and communications with international museums for devising exhibitions and loans.

Since 2016 Gao Rui has managed a series of international exhibitions in collaboration with countries including Finland, Monaco, Russia, Singapore and the UK. Currently, he is collaborating with the Science Museum in London on the loan of Palace Museum clockwork treasures, which will be on display when the exhibition opens in 2024. Another current project is an exhibition at the Palace Museum titled, The World of Tea: Special Exhibition on Tea Culture, where he is managing the project team and responsible for the loan of international objects.

Professionally, Gao Rui is interested in organising international exhibitions as it gives him the opportunity to experience new cultures and be in new environments. He enjoys being close to artworks and objects from other countries and likes to exchange ideas about the management and running of exhibitions with colleagues from other institutions.

At the British Museum

During Gao Rui’s time on the International Training Programme he was based in the Asia Department and his UK partner placement was spent at Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, Newcastle.

As an ongoing project throughout the six-week programme, fellows were asked to use their existing skills and experience, and the knowledge gained throughout the annual programme, to create, develop, and propose a new interpretation for an object currently on display in the British Museum. Working in his departmental group, Gao Rui used their object, a Bencharong bowl, to explore the history of the object through cross cultural exchange.

Gao Rui’s participation on the International Training Programme was generously supported by the Sino-British Fellowship Trust.