Visitors view an exhibition of the digitally restored Deshou Palace at a museum built beside the ruins of the palace in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on Nov 23, 2022, as the museum opens to public. The palace once served as the residence of Zhao Gou, the first emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), after his abdication, and was unearthed in recent years and turned into a museum. [Photo by Li Zhong/For China Daily]

A ceremony was held earlier this month to mark the inauguration of a museum containing the remains of a royal palace dating back to the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. The museum containing Deshou Palace, or the Palace of Morals and Longevity, covers approximately 21,000 square meters. The remains were discovered in the 1980s. Finds included large palace foundations, brick roads, rock garden foundations and drainage facilities.