Xi'an Museum (and the Little Goose Pagoda park)

 We went to the Little Goose Pagoda and the Xi'an Museum (which are all in one big park) last week. We've been there many times before but the park (and a few other parks) were closed since last summer (almost a year) for renovations. Are the renovations good? They took out many (almost all!) of the bushes and put in grass and new trees. The park looks nice but has lost much of its uniqueness and character. The pagoda itself used to be open to go up for a fee but now it's closed (maybe permanently?) to go up. We think a new company is in charge of a number of parks in the city because a number of parks have undergone renovations (and they are all looking very similar and loosing much of the originality each one had).