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NationalPalace Museum
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Established 10 October 1925 (in Jingzhao Difang)
12 November 1965 (in Taipei)
Location Shilin, Taipei, Taiwan
Type National museum
Collection size 696,422 (as of December 2016)[1]
Visitors 6,142,892 (2016)[2][3]
Ranking 6th globally (2015)[4]
Director Lin Jeng-yi
Website
www.npm.gov.tw

south.npm.gov.tw
National Palace Museum
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[show]Transcriptions
The National Palace Museum,[5] located in Taipei and Taibao, Taiwan, has a
permanent collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of ancient Chinese imperial artifacts
and artworks, making it one of the largest of its type in the world. The collection
encompasses 8,000 years of history of Chinese art from the Neolithic age to the
modern.[6] Most of the collection are high quality pieces collected by China's
emperors. The National Palace Museum shares its roots with the Palace Museum in the
Forbidden City, whose extensive collection of artwork and artifacts were built upon
the imperial collections of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Establishment in Beijing and relocation
1.2 Evacuation to Taiwan
2 Museum building
2.1 Northern Branch
2.2 Southern Branch
3 Collections
3.1 Statistics
3.2 Notable items
3.2.1 Metalwork
3.2.2 Ceramics
3.2.3 Carvings
3.2.4 Painting and calligraphy
3.2.5 Rare books and documents
3.3 Gallery
4 Overseas exhibitions
5 Other visitor facilities
5.1 Zhishan Garden
5.2 Chang Dai-chien residence
5.3 Grand Palace Museum Project
6 Directors
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
History[edit]

The National Palace Museum treasure fleeing Japanese forces in the 1930s
Establishment in Beijing and relocation[edit]
The National Palace Museum was originally established as the Palace Museum in
Jingzhao Difang's Forbidden City on 10 October 1925, shortly after the expulsion of
Puyi,[7][8] the last emperor of China, from the Forbidden City by warlord Feng Y-
hsiang. The articles in the museum consisted of the valuables of the former
Imperial family.

In 1931, shortly after the Mukden Incident Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's

Nationalist Government ordered the museum to make preparations to evacuate its most
valuable pieces out of the city to prevent them from falling into the hands of the
Imperial Japanese Army. As a result, from 6 February to 15 May 1933, the Palace
Museum's 13,491 crates and 6,066 crates of objects from the Exhibition Office of
Ancient Artifacts, the Summer Palace and the Imperial Hanlin Academy were moved in
five groups to Shanghai.[9] In 1936, the collection was moved to Nanking after the
construction of the storage in the Taoist monastery Chaotian Palace was complete.
[10] As the Imperial Japanese Army advanced farther inland during the Second Sino-
Japanese War, which merged into the greater conflict of World War II, the
collection was moved westward via three routes to several places including Anshun
and Leshan until the surrender of Japan in 1945. In 1947, it was shipped back to
the Nanjing warehouse.

Evacuation to Taiwan[edit]
The Chinese Civil War resumed following the surrender of the Japanese, ultimately
resulting in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's decision to evacuate the arts to
Taiwan, which had been handed over to the ROC in 1945. When the fighting worsened
in 1948 between the Communist and Nationalist armies, the National Beiping Palace
Museum and other five institutions made the decision to send some of the most
prized items to Taiwan.[11] Hang Li-wu, later director of the museum, supervised
the transport of some of the collection in three groups from Nanking to the harbor
in Keelung, Taiwan between December 1948 and February 1949. By the time the items
arrived in Taiwan, the Communist army had already seized control of the National
Beiping Palace Museum collection so not all of the collection could be sent to
Taiwan. A total of 2,972 crates of artifacts from the Forbidden City moved to
Taiwan only accounted for 22% of the crates originally transported south, although
the pieces represented some of the very best of the collection.

Three shipments from Nanjing to Keelung between 1948 and 1949[11]

Departure Arrival Crates from Total
National Beiping Palace Museum National Central Museum National Central Library
The IHP of Academia Sinica MOFA National Beiping Library
2226 December 1948 320 212 60 120 60 772
69 January 1949 1,680 486 462 856 18 3,502
30 January 22 February 1949 972 154 122 1,248 [a]
Total 2,972 852 644 976 60 18 5,522
a.^ In the third shipment, 728 crates from the National Beiping Palace Museum and
28 crates from the National Central Library were left in Nanjing due to limited
space aboard. The fourth shipment was halted by then acting president Li Zongren.

Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum

The collection from the National Beiping Palace Museum, the Preparatory Office of
the National Central Museum, the National Central Library, and the National Beiping
Library was stored in a railway warehouse in Yangmei following transport across the
Taiwan Strait and was later moved to the storage in cane sugar mill near Taichung.
[11] In 1949, the Executive Yuan created the Joint Managerial Office, for the
National Beiping Palace Museum, the Preparatory Office of the National Central
Museum and the National Central Library to oversee the organization of the
collection.[7] For security reasons, the Joint Managerial Office chose the mountain
village of Beigou, located in Wufeng, Taichung as the new storage site for the
collection in the same year.[11] In the following year, the collection stored in
cane sugar mill was transported to the new site in Beigou.

With the National Central Library's reinstatement in 1955, the collection from the
National Beiping Library was simultaneously incorporated into the National Central
Library.[11] The Joint Managerial Office of the National Beiping Palace Museum and
the Preparatory Office of the National Central Museum stayed in Beigou for another
ten years. During the decade, the Office obtained a grant from the Asia Foundation
to construct a small-scale exhibition hall in the spring of 1956.[12] The
exhibition hall, opened in March 1957, was divided into four galleries in which it
was possible to exhibit more than 200 items.

Paifang of the Northern Branch of National Palace Museum.

In the autumn of 1960, the Office received a grant of NT$32 million from AID.[12]
The Republic of China (ROC) government also contributed more than NT$30 million to
establish a special fund for the construction of a museum in the Taipei suburb of
Waishuanxi. The construction of the museum in Waishuanxi was completed in August
1965.[8] The new museum site was christened the "Chung-Shan Museum" in honor of the
founding father of the ROC, Sun Yat-sen, and first opened to the public on the
centenary of Sun Yat-sen's birthday. Since then, the museum in Taipei has managed,
conserved and exhibited the collections of the National Beiping Palace Museum and
the Preparatory Office of the National Central Museum.

The National Palace Museum in the 1970s. Two wings were added to the main building
after the second phase of the museum's expansion.
During the 1960s and 1970s, the National Palace Museum was used by the Kuomintang
to support its claim that the Republic of China was the sole legitimate government
of all China, in that it was the sole preserver of traditional Chinese culture amid
social change and the Cultural Revolution in mainland China, and tended to
emphasize Chinese nationalism.

The People's Republic of China (PRC) government has long said that the collection
was stolen and that it legitimately belongs in China, but Taiwan has defended its
collection as a necessary act to protect the pieces from destruction, especially
during the Cultural Revolution. However, relations regarding this treasure have
warmed in recent years and the Palace Museum in Beijing has agreed to lend relics
to the National Palace Museum for exhibitions since 2009.[13] The Palace Museum
curator Zheng Xinmiao has said that the artifacts in both mainland and Taiwan
museums are "China's cultural heritage jointly owned by people across the Taiwan
Strait."[14]

A number of Chinese artifacts dating from the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, some
of which had been owned by Emperor Zhenzong, were excavated and then came into the
hands of the Kuomintang General Ma Hongkui, who refused to publicize the findings.
Among the artifacts were a white marble tablet from the Tang Dynasty, gold nails,
and bands made out of metal. It was not until after Ma died that his wife went to
Taiwan in 1971 from America to bring the artifacts to Chiang Kai-shek, who turned
them over to the National Palace Museum.[15]

Museum building[edit]

Main Hall of the Northern Branch of National Palace Museum.

Northern Branch[edit]
The National Palace Museum's main building in Taipei was designed by Huang Baoyu
(???) and constructed from March 1964 to August 1965.[16][17] Due to the
insufficient space to put on display over 600,000 artifacts, the museum underwent
expansions in 1967, 1970, 1984 and 1996.[18] In 2002, the museum underwent a major
NT$21 million renovation revamping the museum to make it more spacious and modern.
[16][19] The renovation closed about two-thirds of the museum section and the
museum officially reopened in February 2007.[20][21]

Permanent exhibitions of painting and calligraphy are rotated once every three
months.[22] Approximately 3,000 pieces of the museum's collection can be viewed at
a given time.[23] Although brief, these exhibitions are extremely popular. In 2014,
the museum organized the top three best-attended exhibitions worldwide, including
paintings and calligraphic works by Tang Yin, as well as depictions of the Qing
dynasty's Qianlong Emperor reinterpreted by contemporary artists.[24]

Southern Branch Museum

Southern Branch[edit]
The Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum is located in Taibao, Chiayi
County, Taiwan and set on 70 hectares (700,000 m2) of land. There is also a lake
and Asian style garden on the grounds. Planning for the southern branch began in
2000.[25] The building was to be designed by architect Antoine Predock and began
construction in 2005. However, due to serious construction delays and disputes
between the contractors and the museum, the firm pulled out in 2008.[26] Museum
director Chou Kung-shin stated in August 2010 that new architects Kris Yao for the
project would commence, with construction expected to be completed in 2015.[27] The
project cost NT$7.9 billion (US$268 million) and spread over 70 hectares (700,000
m2).[28] The museum itself, 9,000 square meters in total,[25] was designed by the
Taiwan-based firm Artech Inc. and is both earthquake resistant and flood resistant.
[28]

Collections[edit]
Collections (as of December 2016)[1]
Categories Numbers
Bronzes 6,224
Ceramics 25,555
Jades 13,478
Lacquerwares 766
Enamel wares 2,520
Carvings 663
Studio implements 2,379
Coins 6,953
Miscellaneous objects
(religious implements,
costumes and accessories,
and snuff bottles) 12,979
Textiles 1,537
Paintings 6,564
Calligraphic works 3,672
Calligraphic model books 490
Tapestries and embroideries 308
Fans 1,880
Rare books 211,195
Qing archival documents 386,862
Documents in Manchu,
Mongolian, and Tibetan 11,501
Rubbings 896
Total 696,422
Statistics[edit]
Complete inventory inspection has been taken three times in 19511954, 19891991
and 20082012 since the museum started to bring collections to Taiwan in 1948.[29]
According to official report, the museum house Chinese calligraphy, porcelain,
bronzes, paintings, jades and many other artifacts, with 22% (2,972 out of 13,491
crates) of the boxes originally transported south from the Forbidden City.[8] Other
additions include transfers from other institutions, donations, and purchases made
by the museum. A lot of these artifacts were brought by Chiang Kai-shek before his
Kuomintang forces fled the mainland in 1949.[30] The museum has accumulated nearly
700,000 artifacts of significant historical or artistic values. With a collection
of this size, only 1% of the collection is exhibited at any given time. The rest of
the collection is stored in temperature controlled vaults.[19]

Notable items[edit]
The museum houses several treasured items that are the pride of their collection
and famous worldwide. The antiquities in the National Palace Museum span over
thousands of years with a variety of genres.[31]

The Warming Bowl in the Shape of a Flower with Light Bluish-green Glaze, Ru ware,
c. 1086 - c. 1106.

The Narcissus Basin with Light Bluish-green Glaze, Ru ware, c. 1086 - c. 1106.

The Jadeite Cabbage, 19th century.

The Meat-shaped Stone, 17th century.

Metalwork[edit]
Among the collections of bronzes, Zong Zhou Zhong (Bell of Zhou), commissioned by
King Li of Zhou, is the most important musical instrument cast under his royal
decree.[32] Mao Gong Ding (Cauldron of Duke of Mao) of the late Western Zhou
Dynasty (1046771 BCE) carries the longest Chinese bronze inscriptions so far
extent.

The Zong Zhou Zhong (Bell of Zhou), 9th century BC

The Mao Gong Ding, 9th century BC

The San Family Plate, 9th century BC

Ceramics[edit]
With 21 pieces out of fewer than 80 surviving, the museum has the world's largest
collection of Ru ware,[33] one of the rarest Chinese ceramics, made exclusively for
the court and one of the Five Great Kilns of the Song Dynasty (9601279), along
with Ding porcelain, Jun ware, Guan and Ge;[34][35] the museum has major
collections of all of these. Those from the official kilns of the Ming (13681644)
and Qing (16441912) dynasties, such as the doucai porcelains of the Chenghua reign
in the Ming Dynasty and painted enamel porcelains from the early Qing, are also of
excellent quality.[36]

Carvings[edit]
One of the most popular pieces of jade carvings in the museum is the Jadeite
Cabbage.[37] It's a piece of jadeite carved into the shape of a cabbage head, and
with a large and a small grasshopper camouflaged in the leaves. The ruffled semi-
translucent leaves attached is due to the masterful combination of various natural
color of the jade to recreate the color variations of a real cabbage.[38] The Meat-
shaped Stone is often exhibited together with the Jadeite Cabbage.[37][39] A piece
of jasper, a form of agate, the strata of which are cleverly used to create a
likeness of a piece of pork cooked in soy sauce. The dyed and textured surface
makes the layers of skin, lean meat, and fat materialized incredibly lifelike.
Other various carvings of materials such as bamboo, wood, ivory, rhinoceros horn,
and fruit pits are exhibited.[40] The Carved Olive-stone Boat is a tiny boat carved
from an olive stone.[41] The incredibly fully equipped skilled piece is carved with
a covered deck and moveable windows. The interior has chairs, dishes on a table and
eight figures representing the characters of Su Shih's Latter Ode on the Red Cliff.
The bottom is carved in minute character the entire 300+ character text with the
date and the artist's name.

Painting and calligraphy[edit]

The paintings in the National Palace Museum date from the Tang Dynasty (618907) to
the modern era.[42] The collection covers over one thousand years of Chinese
painting, and encompasses a wide range of genres, including landscape, flower and
bird, figure painting, boundary painting, etc. Among the most popular paintings in
the collection is the Qing Palace Version of Along the River During the Qingming
Festival by five Qing dynasty court painters (Chen Mu, Sun Hu, Jin Kun, Dai Hong
and Cheng Zhidao).[43] Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (Wu-yung version) by Huang
Gongwang of Yuan Dynasty is one of the rarest and most dramatic works.[44] Walking
on a Mountain Path in Spring is another significant work. The museum has a vast
collection of calligraphy works from the hands of major calligraphers, scholars and
important courtiers in history. The calligraphy works date from the Jin (265420)
and Tang (618907) dynasties, with a variety of styles.

Rare books and documents[edit]

Rare books in the National Palace Museum range from the Song (9601279) and Yuan
(12711368) dynasties to the Ming (13681644) and Qing (16441912) dynasties,
amounting to over 200,000 volumes.[45][46] Yongle Encyclopedia and Siku Quanshu
(Complete Library of the Four Treasuries) are among the examples.[47][48]

Historical documents in the museum include Jiu Manzhou Dang, a set of Manchu
archives that are the sourcebook of Manwen Laodang and a primary source of early
Manchu history.[49] Other official documents such as the court archives are
available for research in the history of the Qing Dynasty.

Gallery[edit]

The Travelers Among Mountains and Streams, by Fan Kuan, c. 1000.

The Early Spring, by Guo Xi, 1072.

The Wind in Pines Among a Myriad Valleys, by Li Tang, 1124.

The Lofty Mt.Lu, by Shen Zhou, 1467.

The Immortal in Splashed Ink, by Liang Kai, c. 1200.

The Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring, by Ma Yuan, 13th century.

A palace concert, c. 836 - c. 907.

The Literary Gathering, by Emperor Huizong of Song, 12th century.

The Listening Quietly to Soughing Pines, by Ma Lin, 13th century.

The Homeward Oxherds in Wind and Rain, by Li Di, 12th century.

The Magpies and Hare, by Cui Bai, 1061.

The Herd of Deer in a Maple Grove, c. 1031-48.

The Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, by Huang Gongwang, 1347-50.

The One Hundred Horses: A painting done in 1728 by Giuseppe Castiglione by

implementing a mixture of western artistic skills and utilizing eastern materials
to realize a sense of realism to this native theme.[50]
Overseas exhibitions[edit]
Due to fears that the artifacts may be impounded and be claimed by China due to the
controversial political status of Taiwan, the museum does not conduct exhibitions
in mainland China. Since the museum's 1965 establishment in Taipei, the National
Palace Museum has only made five large overseas exhibitions in countries which have
passed laws to prevent judicial seizure of the treasures. The past five overseas
events were to the United States in 1996, France in 1998, Germany in 2003, Austria
in 2008 and Japan in 2014.[51][52]

The past overseas exhibitions are as follows:[7]

1935: "London International Exhibition of Chinese Art" at the Royal Academy of

Arts, London.
1940: "Chinese Art Exhibition" in Moscow, Leningrad.
1961: "Ancient Chinese Art Exhibition" National Gallery of Art in Washington DC,
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, the de Young Museum.
1973: "China Exhibition" in Seoul, South Korea.
1991: "On the Occasion of 1492: the art of the Age of Exploration" at the
Washington National Gallery of Art.
1996: "Splendors of Imperial China" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art exhibition.
1998: "Empire of Memory" at the Grand Palais in Paris exhibition.
1999: National Palace Museum exhibition in Central America.
2000: "Taoism and Chinese art," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Asian Art
Museum of San Francisco.
2003: "Treasures of the Son of Heaven," the old museum in Berlin, Bonn, Federal Art
Gallery touring exhibition.
2005: "Museum of World Culture Expo Korea" in Korea.
2005: "The Mongolian Empire - Genghis Khan and his generation" exhibition at the
Museum of Anthropology in Munich, Germany.
2006: "magnificent years of the Qing court (1662-1795)" exhibition at the Guimet
Museum, France.
2007: "Shanghai - Modern Art" exhibition in Japan.
2008: "Imperial Treasures" in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna exhibition.
2014: "The Treasured Masterpieces from the National Palace Museum, Taipei" in the
Tokyo National Museum and Kyushu National Museum.[53]
Other visitor facilities[edit]
Zhishan Garden[edit]

Zhishan Garden
Housed within the compound of the National Palace Museum, this classical Chinese
Song and Ming style garden covers 1.88 hectares (18,800 m2).[54] It incorporates
the principles of such diverse fields as feng shui, Chinese architecture, water
management, landscape design, and Chinese folklore and metaphor. It contains
numerous ponds, waterworks, and wooden Chinese pavilions. It was completed and
opened in 1985. There is also another Chinese Style Garden nearby called the
Shuangxi Park and Chinese Garden.

Chang Dai-chien residence[edit]

The National Palace Museum also maintains the residence of renowned Chinese painter
Chang Dai-chien. The residence, known as the Chang Dai-chien Residence or the Abode
of Maya, was constructed in 1976 and completed in 1978.[55] It is a two-story
Siheyuan building with Chinese-style gardens occupying approximately 1,911 m2.
After Chang's death in 1983, the house and gardens were donated to the National
Palace Museum and turned into a museum and memorial.

Grand Palace Museum Project[edit]

The Grand Palace Museum Project, officially launched in 2011, is a plan to expand
the exhibition area in Taipei and improve the environment. The total budget for
renovation should be around NT$10 to 12 billion.[56]

Directors[edit]
Tu Cheng-sheng (20 May 200020 May 2004)
Shih Shou-chien (20 May 200425 January 2006)
Lin Mun-lee (25 January 200620 May 2008)
Chou Kung-shin (20 May 200829 July 2012)
Chou Chu-kun (30 July 201218 September 2012) (acting)
Feng Ming-chu (18 September 201219 May 2016)
Lin Jeng-yi (20 May 2016Incumbent)
See also[edit]
List of museums in Taipei
List of museums in Taiwan
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