Taipei National Palace Museum

 

As to Palace Museum of China, visitors naturally have too different images, one is Beijing Forbidden City or Palace Museum, and the other is Taipei National Palace Museum. Historically these two museums originated from the same palace museum before 1949. Due to the historical reasons, Palace museum was separated into two and located in different areas. As for the world reputation, Beijing Palace Museum is more famous than that in Taipei. While in the aspect of collections, Taipei National Palace Museum has more rare treasures, most of invaluable ancient articles used to be preserved in Old Palace Museum were shipped to Taipei during the short time from 1948 to 1949. So frankly, Taipei National Palace Museum also deserves traveling.

 

 

The Taipei Palace Museum, located at Double Brooks outside of Shilin of Taipei City, Taiwan Province, is a famous museum of history and cultural arts in China. Built along mountains, the Museum is a palace-style architecture, with white stone railing and sky-blue glazed tiles. The halls of this museum are largely similar to Beijing Palace museum in the architectural styles, but it becomes more modern and acceptable.

Constructed in 1965, the Taipei Palace Museum is equipped with modern facilities and a great number of collections of national treasures in Chinese history. After the Nanjing Central Museum was merged into the Taipei Palace Museum, the number of cultural relics in the Museum was increased to 242,592 from the previous 230,863. Including articles received one after another through donation, collection and purchase, the total number of cultural relics kept in the Museum is about 600,000 now. The Museum has different exhibition halls of bronzeware, stoneware, jade ware, calligraphy and paintings, etc. It has staged exhibitions like the Exhibition of Bronzeware and Ritual Articles of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the Development of China's Stoneware, the Exhibition of Historical Documents of the Republic of China, and so on. The Museum has also carried out roadshows on irregular intervals.