National Palace Museum
The National Palace Museum (Chinese: 國立故宮博物院; pinyin: Guólì Gùgōng Bówùyuàn) is a museum in Taipei, Taiwan. It has a permanent collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of Chinese artifacts and artworks, many of which were moved from the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City as well as five other institutions in mainland China during the ROC retreat. These collections had been transferred to several locations before finally being established in 1965 at its present location in Shilin, Taipei. The museum building itself was built between March 1964 and August 1965, with many subsequent expansions making it one of the largest of its type in the world, including a southern branch located in Taibao, Chiayi.
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| Established | 10 October 1925 (in Forbidden City, Beijing) 12 November 1965 (in Taipei, Taiwan) |
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| Location | Shilin, Taipei |
| Coordinates | 25°6′8.47519″N 121°32′54.56958″E |
| Type | National museum |
| Collections | 698,856 (as of February 2022) |
| Visitors | Northern branch: 3,832,373 (2019) Southern branch: 1,049,262 (2019) |
| Director | Hsiao Tsung-huang |
| Architect | Huang Baoyu (Northern Branch) Kris Yao (Southern Branch) |
| Website | npm |
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The museum's collection encompasses items spanning 8,000 years of Chinese history from the neolithic age to the modern period. The National Palace Museum shares its roots with the Palace Museum of Beijing, whose extensive collection of artwork and artifacts were built upon the imperial collections of the Ming and Qing dynasties.