National Palace Museum

National Palace Museum

國立故宮博物院
Established	October 10, 1925 in Beijing 12 November 1965 in Taipei
Location	Shilin District, Taipei, Republic of China
Type	National museum
Collection size	696,422 (as of December 2016)[1]
Visitors	6,142,892 (2016)[2][3][4]
Director	Lin Jeng-yi (林正儀)[5]
Website	www.npm.gov.tw (in English)

The National Palace Museum (traditional Chinese: 國立故宮博物院; simplified Chinese: 国立故宫博物院; pinyin: Guólì Gùgōng Bówùyuàn) is a museum in Shilin, Taipei, Republic of China. It is one of the national museums of the Republic of China. It has nearly 700,000 pieces of ancient Chinese artifacts and artworks. It is one of the largest museums in the world.^[6] Most things in the collection are high quality pieces collected by China's ancient emperors.

Gallery

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  Paifang of the National Palace Museum.
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  Huabiao in front of the National Palace Museum.
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  Chinese guardian lions in front of the Museum.
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  Zhishan Garden
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  The Jadeite Cabbage
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  The Meat-shaped Stone length
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  A Ming Dynasty statue of Buddhist deity, Guanyin.

References

1. "List of Categories in the Collection". National Palace Museum. 29 January 2017.
2. "Visitor figures 2016". National Palace Museum. 29 January 2017. Archived from the original on 3 February 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
3. National Palace Museum Annual Report 2015 (First print ed.). Taipei: National Palace Museum. April 2016. p. 69. ISBN 9789575627607. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-22. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
4. "Top 10 Art Museum Attendance". The Art Newspaper. March 2016. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
5. "List of Categories in the Collection". National Palace Museum. 29 January 2017.
6. Peter Enav (12 May 2009). "National art collection evokes hard history". The China Post. AP. Archived from the original on 9 October 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2012.