National Palace Museum
Also known as NPM, National Palace Museum in Taipei, National Palace Museum Taipei
ancient Chinese imperial artifacts and artworks museum in Taipei, Taiwan
Key facts
- Established
- 10 October 1925 (in Forbidden City , Beijing ), 12 November 1965 (in Taipei, Taiwan)
- Location
- Shilin , Taipei , Taiwan
- Type
- National museum
- Collections
- 699,119 (as of December 2025 )
- Visitors
- Northern branch: 2,426,842 (2025) , Southern branch : 1,166,291 (2025)
- Director
- Hsiao Tsung-huang
- Architect
- Huang Baoyu (Northern Branch) Kris Yao (Southern Branch)
- Website
- npm.gov.tw
- Traditional chinese
- 國立故宮博物院
- Simplified chinese
- 国立故宫博物院
- Hanyu pinyin
- Guólì gùgōng bówùyuàn
- Wade giles
- Kuo -li ku -kung po -wu -yüan
Article
The National Palace Museum, also known as Taipei Palace Museum, is a national museum headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in Beijing in 1925, the museum was re-established in Shilin, Taipei, in 1965, later expanded with a southern branch in Taibao, Chiayi, in 2015.
The museum holds a permanent collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of artifacts and artworks, primarily comprising items relocated from the Beijing Palace Museum and other institutions in the mainland China during the government of the Republic of China's retreat to Taiwan. Before the re-establishment of the museum in Shilin in 1965, these collections were temporarily housed in various locations across Taiwan.