The Palace Museum was established on October 10, 1925. It is a large-scale comprehensive ancient art museum established on the basis of the Ming and Qing imperial palaces and their collections. The Forbidden City was listed as the first batch of "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units" by the State Council in 1961, and was included in the "World Heritage List" by UNESCO in 1987. The Palace Museum was rated as a national 5A-level tourist attraction in 2007, and was rated as one of the first first-class museums in China in 2008.
The Palace Museum covers an area of more than 1 million square meters and preserves about 9,000 ancient buildings. It is the largest and best preserved ancient palace complex in China. Its predecessor, the Forbidden City, the Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, was built in the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420).
A total of 24 emperors lived here in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Palace Museum has a complete collection of cultural relics, with a total collection of more than 1.86 million pieces (sets), which can be divided into 25 categories according to different textures and forms, such as paintings, legal books, inscriptions, bronzes, gold and silverware, among which are precious Cultural relics account for 90% of the total collection.
The Palace Museum presents the long and splendid Chinese civilization to the public through various means such as the Ming and Qing imperial palace buildings, the undisturbed display of palace historical sites, permanent exhibitions of art collections such as treasures, clocks, paintings, ceramics, sculptures, etc., as well as temporary special exhibitions.
I hope foreign friends who like Chinese culture have the opportunity to visit it