National Palace Museum

National Palace Museum
National Palace Museum
Traditional Chinese	國立故宮博物院
Simplified Chinese	国立故宫博物院
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Guólì gùgōng bówùyuàn
Wade–Giles	Kuo2-li4 ku4-kung1 po2-wu4-yüan4
IPA	[kwǒlî kûkʊ́ŋ pwǒ.û.ɥɛ̂n]
Hakka
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ	Kwet-li̍p kù-kiung pok-vu̍t-yèn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	gwok3 laap6 gu3 gung1 bok3 mat6 jyun6
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Kok-li̍p Kò͘-kiong Phok-bu̍t-īⁿ
Tâi-lô	Kok-li̍p Kòo-kiong Phok-bu̍t-īnn

National Palace Museum
國立故宮博物院
	National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
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Established	10 October 1925 (in Forbidden City, Beijing); 12 November 1965 (in Taipei, Taiwan)
Location	Shilin, Taipei
Coordinates	25°6′8.47519″N 121°32′54.56958″E / 25.1023542194°N 121.5484915500°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.gov.tw

The National Palace Museum^{[note 1]} (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, the majority 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.

The museum's collection encompasses items spanning 8,000 years of Chinese history from the neolithic age to the modern period.^[3] 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.

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^ ^a ^b 國立故宮博物院: 108年度參觀人數統計. National Palace Museum. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^ Peter Enav (12 May 2009). "National art collection evokes hard history". The China Post. AP. Retrieved 16 June 2012.

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[visitors-2] 國立故宮博物院: 108年度參觀人數統計. National Palace Museum. Retrieved 29 October 2020.

[chinapost.com.tw-4] Peter Enav (12 May 2009). "National art collection evokes hard history". The China Post. AP. Retrieved 16 June 2012.

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