National Palace Museum
Tags : Museum
Timings : Sunday - Thursday: 8:30 AM - 6:30 PM, Friday & Saturday: 8:30 AM - 9:30 PM
Entry Fee : NT$ 250
National Palace Museum, Taipei Overview
Historic museum with an enormous collection of Chinese artefacts and artworks spanning nearly 8,000 years, from the Neolithic to the modern era.
The National Palace Museum's collection is huge. It holds nearly 700,000 pieces of ancient Chinese artefacts and artworks. These artefacts were originally held in the Palace Museum in Beijing, were moved to Shanghai and Nanjing ahead of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the most important pieces were then sent to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, where they sit today. The museum was formally opened in 1965, displaying these collections.
Beyond the artefacts from the Forbidden City, the museum has received donations and has made purchases of its own. The museum contains antique collections, which include extremely important and rare items in bronze, ceramic, jade and various other materials. The collection of artworks is extensive as well, covering more than a thousand years of Chinese paintings and also almost 2000 years of calligraphy.
The size of the collection means that at a given time, only 1% of the collection is on display and the rest is stored in secure vaults.
