The director of the Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, apologised on Tuesday for a controversial incident brought to light through a post on Sina Weibo on Friday.

The post featured a woman with the user name Lu Xiaobao, who showed off her luxury car by parking it inside the Forbidden City on Jan 13, which was a Monday, drawing a lot of flak from netizens. The compound is closed for public on Mondays.