National Palace Museum

The National Palace Museum is an antique museum in Shilin, Taipei, Taiwan. It is one of the national museums of the Republic of China and has a permanent collection of more than 696,000 pieces of ancient Chinese imperial artifacts and artworks, making it one of the largest in the world. The collection encompasses over 10,000 years of Chinese history from the Neolithic age to the late Qing Dynasty. Most of the collection are high quality pieces collected by China’s ancient emperors.

The National Palace Museum and the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City in Beijing, mainland China, share the same roots. The old Palace Museum in Beijing split in two as a result of the Chinese Civil War, which divided China into the two entities of the Republic of China on Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) respectively. In English, the institution in Taipei is distinguished from the one in Beijing by the additional National designation. In common usage in Chinese, the institution in Taipei is known as the Taipei Former Palace , while that in Beijing is known as the Beijing Former Palace .

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