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Mukden Palace
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former imperial palace of the early Manchu-led Qing dynasty.
Key facts
- Location
- No. 171, Shenyang Road, Shenhe District, Shenyang, Liaoning
- Coordinates
- 41°47′46″N 123°27′03″E / 41.796161°N 123.450708°E / 41.796161; 123.450708
- Type
- Art museum , Imperial Palace, Historic site
- Visitors
- 1.6 million
- Curator
- Bin Wu
- Built
- 1625, 1631, 1780
- Area
- 6 hectares
- Architect
- Nurhachi , Hong Taiji , Qianlong Emperor
- Architectural style
- Chinese architecture
- Website
- en .sypm .org .cn (English language version), www .sypm .org .cn /index2 .html (Chinese language version) UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Part of
- Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang
- Criteria
- Cultural: i, ii, iii, iv
- Reference
- 439bis-002
- Inscription
- 1987 (11th Session )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Dazheng Hall, the earliest building in the palace
Mukden Palace (simplified Chinese: 盛京宫殿; traditional Chinese: 盛京宮殿; pinyin: Shèngjīng Gōngdiàn), or Shenyang Imperial Palace (simplified Chinese: 沈阳故宫; traditional Chinese: 瀋陽故宮; pinyin: Shěnyáng Gùgōng), is the former palace of the Later Jin dynasty and the early Qing dynasty. It was built in 1625, and the first three Qing emperors lived there from 1625 to 1644. Since the collapse of imperial rule in China, the palace has been converted to a museum that now lies in the center of Shenyang, Liaoning.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mukden Palace” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.