Pages from a Qing Dynasty manual on deep sea creatures (all images courtesy National Palace Museum in Taipei) Taipei’s National Palace Museum is most renowned for two unique and very tantalizing ...
In March, amid growing fears of a Russian attack on Ukraine’s cultural capital Lviv, staff at the city’s National Museum frantically packed up and hid thousands of its treasures. Now, more than 5,000 ...
Ranked among the world’s top five museums, the expansive palace holds over 700,000 artifacts The Virtual Tourist, Sponsored by Taiwan The history of the more than 700,000 artifacts housed within the ...
During China’s Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and ‘70s, mobs of communist Red Guards destroyed much of their nation’s cultural heritage. However, Chinese Nationalists retreating to Taiwan in 1949 ...
The Hong Kong Palace Museum started off on the wrong foot, amid political tensions and suggestions the costly project was foisted on city by mainland China. Then its original opening date of July 2, ...
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan's National Palace Museum, home to one of the world's biggest collections of imperial Chinese treasures, must expand its horizons internationally to let the "world see Taiwan", ...
After overcoming a rocky start and, more recently, a delay caused by a typhoon, the new Hong Kong Palace Museum—a branch of Beijing’s Palace Museum—is now open in the semi-autonomous city’s West ...
This is part three of a series on the people who saved the heart of China’s Palace Museum from ruin. View the entire series here. On Aug. 13, 1937, only a month after Japanese troops crossed into ...
This Palace which has now been turned into a museum was established by Prince Muhammad Ali, son of Khedive Muhammad Tawfiq, to revive and venerate Islamic arts. -The construction process took 4 years ...
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