In the past one hundred years or so, the Palace Museum has not only meticulously kept the royal palaces and old treasures left over from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but also greatly enriched the collection of cultural relics through state allocation, public acquisition and private donation, assembling a valuable collection of more than 1.8 million ancient calligraphy works and paintings, ancient implements, palace cultural relics, books and archives, and others. The permanent cultural relics dedicated hall and the frequent thematic cultural relics exhibitions of the Palace Museum will let you gain a more complete understanding of the great achievements of the Chinese nation in arts and crafts.

The "Palace Museum" is not only an institution for the protection and management of the building groups and palace cultural relics of the Ming and Qing Imperial Palace (Forbidden City), but also an organization for the collection, research and display of ancient Chinese cultural and artistic works represented by collections of the relics of the Ming and Qing royal families. The "Palace Museum" houses a complete range of excellent cultural relics of ancient times and the modern day. Currently, the Palace Museum has a collection of well over 1.8 million pieces (sets), most of which are palace cultural relics, ancient architecture and books of the Ming and Qing dynasties. These objects fall into 25 broad categories, of which more than 8,000 pieces (sets) are class-I relics, so the Palace Museum is justifiably a treasure house of art.