Beijing’s Palace Museum, located in the heart of the Forbidden City, contains the world’s largest collection of Chinese art, spanning nearly 5,000 years of history. Now, more than 900 of those ...

A craftsman restores a part of a chime bells frame from the collection of the Palace Museum, at the world's largest relics-repair center in the museum's new branch in a northern Beijing suburb. [Photo ...

The Palace Museum, housed in the Forbidden City in Beijing, will expand its exhibition area to alleviate the pressure of huge tourist number. During the week-long National Day holiday, the museum ...

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 ...

The Palace Museum in Hong Kong, a planned branch of Beijing’s “Forbidden City,” has been controversial since its announcement in late December 2016, with critics of the project claiming the museum is ...

One hundred years ago today, on October 10, 1925, beneath the Gate of Divine Prowess of the Forbidden City, a crowd gathered in front of a newly hung plaque bearing five bold characters: Gu Gong Bo Wu ...

Taiwan’s National Palace Museum, which boasts one of the world’s largest collections of Chinese artifacts and artworks, is expanding—virtually. The museum has digitized 70,000 images of its vast ...

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 ...

The Achillion Palace is just one example of famous figures falling in love with Corfu. Originally built in 1890 for a former Empress of Austria, the palace was also home to the last German Emperor, ...