Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan tour Smithsonian’s Peacock Room
Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan visited Chinese artworks at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art while their husbands held talks at the White House. Museum director Chase Robinson said the visit lasted about 45 minutes and that the two women were “full of questions”, with particular attention given to the Peacock Room.
Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan toured the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington on Thursday while Donald Trump and Xi Jinping held talks at the White House, the South China Morning Post reports. The visit included Chinese artworks and a room influenced by Asian design. Much of the tour focused on the Peacock Room, whose displays of Chinese porcelain made it a fitting setting for the occasion, according to museum director Chase Robinson.
Robinson said the two women spent about 45 minutes at the museum and were “full of questions”. The supplied material does not identify the specific works they viewed beyond the reference to Chinese artworks and porcelain. It also does not provide details of any comments made by Melania Trump or Peng Liyuan, or say whether the visit formed part of a wider programme during Xi’s state visit.
The account places the museum tour alongside, rather than within, the leaders’ White House discussions.
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