The Forbidden City is a special museum.
The Palace Museum was founded in 1925, based on the Forbidden City, the imperial palace in Ming and Qing Dynasties. After 500 years of ups and downs, the gate of the Forbidden City finally opened to the public.
The unique collection of the Palace Museum is the largest and most well-preserved wooden palace complex in the Forbidden City. It is the pride of the Chinese nation and the precious cultural heritage of all mankind. Today, the Forbidden City, which once occupied an area of 780,000 square meters, is not only a huge treasure house for collecting royal treasures of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but also a vivid file for recording the court history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties ... Therefore, the lifeline of the Palace Museum is attached to the Forbidden City and grows and extends along its cultural context. ...
Walking into the Palace Museum, you can stroll along the central axis and feel the broad mind of the prosperous dynasty from the ups and downs of architectural movements; You can capture the gentle atmosphere of court life through the exquisite furnishings of the six palaces and the elegant pattern of the palace garden; From the yellow gauze curtain rolled up in hall of mental cultivation Dongnuange, we can trace back to the historical vicissitudes of the Chinese nation at home and abroad a hundred years ago. ...
However, this is not the whole of the Palace Museum.
The Palace Museum, which has gone through 80 years, has not only carefully preserved the royal palaces and old treasures left over from the Ming and Qing Dynasties as always, but also greatly enriched the collection of cultural relics through state allocation, social collection and private donations, forming a series of precious collections, ancient artifacts, palace cultural relics, books and archives in Gu Shuhua, totaling more than 6,543,800 pieces. Strolling through the permanent cultural relics museum of the Palace Museum, or enjoying frequent thematic cultural relics exhibitions, you can have a more complete understanding of the great achievements of China's arts and crafts.
Since the beginning of the new century, the Palace Museum has carried out the largest maintenance project of ancient buildings in history, which not only rejuvenates the ancient Palace Museum, but also vividly shows you precious traditional architectural techniques.
At present, researchers of the Palace Museum are making a more in-depth and detailed study of ancient buildings, cultural relics collected in the courtyard, historical relics of the Palace Museum, archives of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, classics of the Qing Dynasty and the course of the Palace Museum in the past 80 years. Establishing a complete system of "Old Palace Studies" is intended to reveal to you the profound wisdom and cultural spirit of the Chinese nation contained in the Forbidden City.
Once, limited by economic conditions and technical means, the Palace Museum, like the imperial palace with heavy halls in the past, always seemed to be shrouded in mystery. However, in the past 10 years, the Palace Museum, which entered the information age, used the most advanced digital technology and equipment to build a "digital palace museum" as brilliant as the Forbidden City in virtual time and space. It is no longer a distant dream to dedicate the inexhaustible cultural resources of the Forbidden City to distant audience friends. ...
We hope to build a platform to promote the development of "Old Palace Studies" by opening the website of the Palace Museum, which is a window to interact with you. You are welcome to pay attention to, supervise and promote the development of the Palace Museum. ...
With an increasingly open attitude, the Palace Museum invites you to enter this once mysterious territory and the palace of China traditional culture.