Treasures of the Chinese emperors, carried across the sea.
Taipei, Taiwan Founded 1965
The collection began in the Forbidden City in Beijing. During the wars of the twentieth century it was packed into crates and moved again and again, and part of it reached Taiwan in 1948-49. The museum in Taipei opened in 1965.
It holds hundreds of thousands of objects from eight thousand years of Chinese history: bronzes, jades, porcelain, painting and calligraphy.
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A pink stone palace by the Arabian Sea.
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1,400 years of Islamic art in I. M. Pei's desert fortress.
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One family's collection from the court of Hyderabad.
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A royal palace turned into the world's most visited museum.
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Catherine the Great's collection in the Winter Palace.
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Michelangelo's ceiling and the art of the popes.
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5,000 years of art on Fifth Avenue.
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Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age.
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A rain of light under a floating dome.