In order to carry out this grand project, personnel from the design consultancy that was employed to revamp the gallery spent many weeks familiarizing themselves with the collection of Chinese artifacts stored away in the museum vaults. The wish was to create an unequivocally Chinese atmosphere, "inspired by rich colors redolent of the Forbidden City, Moon Gates and Chinese festivals."
負起包裝展示重任的國際費雪設計諮詢公司的人員，為此花下不少時間在博物院地下室庫藏中絞盡心思，他們希望為展覽館創造出生動的中國氣氛：豐富的色彩、紫禁城意象、月洞門、中國節慶的歡樂。