Night at the Museum: The Most Visited Museums
| August 14, 2017
9. National Palace Museum – Taipei, Taiwan
The National Palace Museum, located in Taipei since 1965, houses over 8,000 years of Chinese art, which was primarily collected by the former Emperors of China. There are so many items in the collections that public exhibitions rotate every three months.
The museum is split into the Northern and Southern branches, and combined they receive a total of over six million visitors every year. Two of the most famous artifacts are the “Jadeite Cabbage,” a piece of priceless jadeite carved in the shape of a cabbage, and the “Meat-shaped Stone,” a piece of agate carved to look like a piece of pork cooked in soy sauce.
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