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	National Palace Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It should not be confused with the Palace Museum (note the absence of the word "National"), which is the Forbidden City in Beijing.
		The National Palace Museum (Chinese: 國立故宮博物院; pinyin: Gúolì Gùgōng Bówùyùan) is an art gallery and museum in Taipei, Taiwan, containing artifacts of ancient China.
		The National Palace Museum holds the largest collection of Chinese artifacts and artwork in the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Palace_Museum (382 words)

	Forbidden City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The museum's sponsor is a Chinese businessman whose goal is to share his country's history, but the museum may have also been sponsored by the mainland government.
		The Forbidden City or Forbidden Palace (Chinese: 紫禁城; Hanyu Pinyin: Zǐjìn Chéng; literally "Purple Forbidden City"), located at the exact center of the ancient city of Beijing, was the imperial palace during the mid-Ming and the Qing dynasties.
		The imperial palace grounds are located directly to the north of Tiananmen Square and are accessible from the square via Tiananmen Gate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palace_Museum (1383 words)

	Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Musuem on Asianart.com
		The works of art in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, are classified as national treasures; some have been passed down from dynasty to dynasty since the Northern Sung period (960-1127), the era when the foundation of the collection was amassed.
		Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
		The greater part of the Museum's vast collection entered the Palace during the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor (reigned 1736-95), and many of the objects, especially those in jade and bronze, are intimately connected with state rituals.
	www.asianart.com /splendors (1028 words)

	InternationalReports.net : REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN)
		The National Palace Museum is a world-class museum well worth the trip to Taiwan to see.
		The present National Palace Museum building was constructed in 1965.
		National Palace Museum preserves China’s culture for ‘all humanity’
	www.internationalreports.net /asiapacific/taiwan/2002/nationalpalace.html (807 words)

	Chinese Architecture: National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
		The National Palace Museum (Gugong Bowu Yuan [in Pinyin transliteration], or Kukung Powukuan [in Wade-Giles]) is the world's greatest repository of Chinese art objects.
		The National Palace Museum—formally the Chung Shan Museum building--finally opened its doors at Waishuanghsi in the northern Taipei suburb of Shilin in 1965 to reveal its remarkable contents to the world--ancient porcelains, bronzes, paintings, jades, books and documents—in an attractive setting.
		The next year the former Forbidden City (formerly those who entered uninvited did so under pain of death) was formally opened to the public as the National Palace Museum.
	www.orientalarchitecture.com /taipei/NATLPM.htm (604 words)

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	National Palace Museum Exhibition
		The relationship between the present National Palace Museum in Taipei and the Peking Palace Museum founded in 1925 is well known, and the similarity of their respective names is enough to demonstrate the closeness of their origin.
		According to the "Organizational Regulations" established in 1965, the Museum was responsible for the organization, preservation, and exhibition of the collections from both the Palace Museum and the Central Museum.
		The Central Museum was in fact the source of more of the bronzes and enamelware in the present collection than the Palace Museum.
	www.123soho.com /artgroup/national_palace_museum/0401/np_2ex.htm (1429 words)

	Taipei National Palace Museum: Taiwan Tourist Attractions
		The Taipei National Palace Museum and the famous Forbidden City in Beijing are derived from the same institution, which was split into two as a result of the Chinese Civil War.
		The Taipei National Palace Museum houses the largest collection of priceless Chinese artifacts and artwork in the world, including ancient bronze castings, calligraphy, scroll paintings, porcelain, jade, and rare books, many of which were possessions of the former imperial family.
		One of the treasures of this museum is a jade cabbage, which was part of the dowry of Concubine Jin in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
	www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/taiwan/museum.htm (823 words)

	National Palace Museum
		Taipei's National Palace Museum, located in the Waishuanghsi neighborhood of the Shihlin District, is the pride of Taiwan.
		The National Palace Museum is located in Chihshan Road in Taipei City's Shihlin District.
		Since the museum only has space to display around 15,000 pieces at any given time, the majority of the treasures are kept well protected in air-conditioned vaults buried deep in the mountainside.
	www.taiwan.com.au /Envtra/Taipei/report02.html (528 words)

	NATIONAL PALACE MUSEUM Competition News
		The National Palace Museum (NPM), Taipei, Taiwan, (ROC), was the Sponsor of an open international architectural competition, which concluded November 23, 2004.
		The National Palace Museum in the Republic of China is one of the most prominent cultural institutions in the world.
		Antoine Predock was selected as the Architect to design the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum to be located at Taibo City, Chiayi County.
	www.predock.com /NewsTaiwan.html (782 words)

	CICC CURRENTS
		Calligraphy, paintings, and porcelain formed the backbone of the Ching palace collection, and are also the richest part of the National Palace Museum's holdings, giving it a unique niche among the world's museums.
		The National Palace Museum, in addition to its famous artwork, is home to the complete dynastic archives of the Ching dynasty (1644-1911).
		The Palace Museum Special Exhibition series—which is made up of small books that each focus on one topic, such as paintings of children, horses, or winter landscapes—is also nice for a Chinese art novice.
	www.taipei.org /teco/cicc/currents/currents.htm (4312 words)

	National Palace Museum -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A comprehensive national museum in London, England, the British Museum was established by an act of Parliament in 1753.
		Briefly describes the construction of palaces and royal buildings under the Ottoman empire and the political history of the city of Istanbul from the 5th centry BC to 15th century AD.
		The museum is located in the South Kensington area of London, near the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9054998 (860 words)

	Art Groups> National Palace Museum 2004
		The National Palace Museum itself came into existence in 1925, one year after the last of the former Manchu emperors, P'u Yi, moved out of the former Ch'ing imperial palace.
		The National Palace Museum also possesses a very rich and comprehensive collection of paintings, including many famous masterpieces which are regarded as national treasures.
		he National Palace Museum, standing in its scenic hillside setting n the northern suburbs of Taipei, presents an imposing exterior of traditional Chinese palace architecture.
	www.123soho.com /artgroups/a_artgroup_index_artgroup.phtml?agnum=artgrp00018&page=1 (1131 words)

	International Travel News: The National Palace Museum - Taiwan's treasure-house - Column
		Ranked among the world's top museums - in the same league as the Louvre, the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum - the history of the National Palace Museum is almost as interesting as the art collections it houses.
		The day we chose for our first visit to Taipei's National Palace Museum was also the day hundreds of Taiwanese schoolchildren descended on the museum for their annual visit.
		Close beside a model of the tomb in the museum are two superb stone carvings the robbers left behind: a humanoid tiger and an owl with horns and human ears.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3648/is_n5_v21/ai_18512021 (1254 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
		The National Palace Museum in Taipei includes more than 620,000 items of Chinese art, some dating to 3000 bc.
		MSN Encarta - Multimedia - National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
		The museum building, although large, can display only a small portion of the collection at any one time, so the exhibits change regularly.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461540028/National_Palace_Museum_Taipei_Taiwan.html (52 words)

	Roger McClanahan writes a Review on the The Taiwan Art Scene, for the New York Art World
		Of course the most famous museum in Taiwan is the world-famous National Palace Museum.
		Many works from the Palace Museum are not allowed to travel because of their age, rarity and value.
		The museum is under the directorship of Kuang-nan Huang, one of the liveliest, gung-ho museum directors on the Island.
	www.newyorkartworld.com /reviews-nyaw/taiwan.html (1734 words)

	International Travel News: Focus On Archaeology - author visits the National Palace Museum, Taiwan
		The ceremonial objects that are exhibited in the National Palace Museum include objects produced both in Tibet and in the imperial workshops of the Ching emperors.
		The National Palace Museum houses the world's largest collection of Chinese art, some 700,000 pieces spanning 5,000 years collected by Chinese emperors beginning with the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) up to the last dynasty, the Ching (1644-1911).
		I had visited Taiwan five years before, and the highlight of that visit then was the museum -- not surprising since it's considered one of the world's top museums, in the same league as the Louvre, the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3648/is_8_26/ai_78873408 (1400 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - National Palace Museum
		National Palace Museum, art museum located on Chihshan Road in the Shih-lin district of Taipei, Taiwan.
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		Castle Clinton National Monument, national monument authorized in 1946.
	encarta.msn.com /National_Palace_Museum.html (154 words)

	The Bargello Museum of Florence, Italy
		The National Museum has its setting in one of the oldest buildings in Florence and one of the most beautiful in Italy, which was begun in 1255.
		The building's use as a National Museum began in the mid-nineteenth century, and nowadays is the setting mainly for works of sculpture and many examples of the decorative arts.
		The museum houses many more treasures in cluding Carrand, Reissmann and Franchetti donations augmenting the decorative and minor art collections displayed in the many rooms of the Palace, on the first and second floors.
	www.arca.net /db/musei/bargello.htm (757 words)

	National Palace Museum and Chihshan Garden - Chris's Taiwan Weblog
		They remain there today and are on display in the National Palace Museum.
		China's national art treasures were originally removed from their centuries-old home in the Forbidden City in Peking in 1937 to protect them from the Japanese troops advancing on the city.
		Next to the museum is the Song-dynasty style Chihshan garden.
	www.schmidt.mn /taiwan/index.php?/archives/9-National-Palace-Museum-and-Chihshan-Garden.html (156 words)

	Treasures of the Sons of Heaven—The Imperial Collection from the National Palace Museum Taipei
		With the exhibition Treasures of the Sons of Heaven – The Imperial Collection from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, the treasures of the National Palace Museum are once again assuming the role of cultural emissary that they played most recently in the 1998 French exhibition Mémoire d’Empire – Trésors du Musée national du Palais, Taipei.
		The exhibit is the culmination of over ten years of enthusiastic correspondence and negotiations between the Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik and the National Palace Museum.
		The German curators, in cooperation with research staff from the National Palace Museum, has selected some four hundred objects for display (144 paintings, calligraphic works, and textiles; 237 ceramics, bronzes, and other artifacts; and 19 rare books).
	www.gio.gov.tw /taiwan-website/5-gp/museum (270 words)

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		The National Palace Museum in Taipei is a world-famous treasure-house of Chinese art and culture.
		The National Palace Museum was established in 1925, the year after the Last Emperor left the Forbidden City in Beijing.
		The treasures in the former palace had been chosen over the centuries to delight the exacting taste of successive emperors.
	www.twinbridge.com /Products/CD/gugong/CD-gugone-1.htm (713 words)

	NGA - Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei (01/1997)
		The exhibition was organized by the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
		Overview: 118 paintings and 213 objects from the neolithic era through the 18th century were borrowed from the National Palace Museum.
		Brochure: Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
	www.nga.gov /past/data/exh724.htm (312 words)

	International Market Research - Taiwan’s National Palace Museum Announces Tender in August 2004 for International Architectural Competition for Southern Branch Museum
		The National Palace Museum of the Republic of China (NPM) is sponsoring an international architectural design competition for the Southern Branch of the Museum to be located in Taibo City, Chiayi County, Taiwan.
		INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT, U.S. The National Palace Museum of the Republic of China (NPM) is sponsoring an international architectural design competition for the Southern Branch of the Museum to be located in Taibo City, Chiayi County, Taiwan.
		In accordance with the 2001 The National Palace Museum in the New Century development plan, a Southern Branch of the NPM is to be constructed to complement the Taipei collection of Chinese artifacts with more pan-Asian art and culture artifacts.
	strategis.ic.gc.ca /epic/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/en/gr126968e.html (1048 words)

	Treasures from National Palace Museum(TW) - China History Forum, online chinese history forum
		Two are in the National Palace Museum collection in Taipei and the other is preserved at the Palace Museum in Beijing.
		This ts'ung from the National Palace Museum collection is carved with 17 vertical sections.
		The National Palace Museum has four such vases of identical shape, one of which has a ground of cloud decor.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=617 (4474 words)

	Art in the Sweep of History
		For the National Palace Museum is distinctly the legacy of China's imperial collectors, the most acquisitive having been the emperor Ch'ien-lung, who reigned from 1736 to 1795.
		But what makes Taiwan's National Palace Museum unique also makes its collection, vast as it is, a less than comprehensive survey of the Chinese arts.
		A second installment traveled to the United States in 1961, several years before the National Palace Museum's permanent quarters in Taipei were completed.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/10/14/DD63153.DTL&type=printable (910 words)

	Taipei's treasures revealed in National Palace Museum
		The National Palace Museum, which houses the treasures that used to occupy the Forbidden City in Beijing, holds what is surely one of the largest and most exquisite collections of art and artifacts in the world.
		The National Palace Museum, built to resemble the Qing Court in the Forbidden City, assumes the great artistic and cultural legacy of China.
		The National Palace Museum, named after the National Museum in Taipei, opened to the public in 1965.
	www.wpi.edu /News/TechNews/001212/taipei.shtml (799 words)

	2005release.php?releaseID=1010
		The history of the National Palace Museum (NPM) begins in 1914 in an outer courtyard of the Forbidden City where the first Ancient Artifacts Exhibition Center was established.
		The National Palace Museum is open every day of the year from 9 AM to 5 PM.
		Taipei, Taiwan, September 26, 2005 - Taiwan's National Palace Museum - home to the world's most extensive collection of Chinese art spanning 8,000 years - is celebrating its 80th birthday with a massive $21.4 million renovation.
	www.wheretogonext.com /2005release.php?releaseID=1010 (1066 words)

	Chantarakasem National Museum, Ayutthaya
		It is now used as a national museum and opens everyday, except Monday and Tuesday, from 9.00 a.m.
		This palace was built during the reign of King Maha Thammaraja, the 17th Ayutthayan monarch, for his son's residence (King Naresuan).
		Like other ruins, the palace was destroyed by the Burmese and left unrepaired for a long time.
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/7153/ay_canmsum.htm (96 words)

	National Palace Museum MetaFilter
		February 27, 2003 5:18 AM The National Palace Museum collects, preserves, and promotes the essence of Chinese art and crafts.
		Being able to visit the Palace Museum was one of the best things about living in Taiwan (that and the food).
		"The Museum was first established in 1925 at Beijing and finally relocated at Taipei, Taiwan after WWII.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/23904 (479 words)

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