China, National Palace Museum in Taipei
The National Palace Museum in Taipei features collections from the imperial palace in Beijing's Forbidden
City and houses some 640,000 pieces of Chinese art. The imperial collections (about 20,000 cases) have
endured a fantastic journey for 40 years and 12,000 kilometres, from their point of departure, to escape
political upheavals and military turmoil, and their storage in Taipei. The museum opened in 1965. The imperial
treasures accumulated by enlightened sovereigns, collectors and artists themselves, as far back as the 12th
century, retrace 7,000 years of Chinese history, including calligraphy, paintings and antique bronzework, jade
and ceramics. The “Memory of Empire”, the National Palace Museum in Taipei is the world’s most beautiful
museum of Chinese art, from which the RMN-GP photography agency offers a selection of 630 masterpieces.