National Palace Museum
The National Palce Museum (NPM) was originally founded in 1925 in the Forbidden City in Beijing, which explains why the word "Palace" is used in its name. Beginning in 1931 the collection was crated and moved into the hinterland of China to avoid the ravages of the impeding Sino-Japanese. In 1949, with civil war raging between the Nationalist government and the Communists, the Republic of China shipped about 680,000 of some of the most precious objects in the collection to Taiwan establishing repositories at Yangmei in Taoyuan and Peikou in Wufeng, Taichung. Not until 1965 were they moved to their present home in the Wai-shuang-hsi are of Shi-lin, Taipei.
Image adapted from National Palace Museum website |