This paper focuses on the teaching experiment of the Department of architecture of Huazhong University of Science and Technology . In the course of Chinese architectural history and theory for the third grade, referring to Liu Cixin’s fiction novel "Westrn", and putting it as a special teaching subject background, we bring forward the project“the Imperial Palace Museumin New York ".The paperdiscusses and summarizes a series of exploring and thingto theteaching process of Chinese and foreign architectural history.