National Palace Museum — The World's Greatest Collection of Chinese Art
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National Palace Museum — The World's Greatest Collection of Chinese Art

National Palace Museum (國立故宮博物院 — the museum in the Shilin district of northern Taipei housing the world's largest collection of Chinese imperial art — approximately 700,000 artefacts spanning 8,000 years of Chinese civilization, the collection originally assembled by the Chinese imperial court and brought to Taiwan in 1948-1949 when the Nationalist government retreated from mainland China): the collection includes jade, ceramics, bronzes, calligraphy, paintings, and the imperial treasures of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties.

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