The Palace Museum
Founded in 1925, the Palace Museum is a large-scale comprehensive museum established on the basis of the Forbidden City, an imperial palace for the Ming and Qing dynasties, and their collection of treasures.
The Palace Museum boasts two major cultural resources: the palace architecture of the Forbidden City and a collection of more than 1.86 million pieces (sets) of relics. A World Cultural Heritage site, the Forbidden City covers an area of 720,000 square meters and consists of over 1,000 wooden-structure buildings from the Ming and Qing dynasties, making it the largest and best-preserved ancient palace complex in China. The relics housed in the museum are mostly from the collection of the Qing Dynasty and include calligraphy and paintings, ceramics, jade, gold and silver ware, and imported relics, among many other items, establishing the museum's reputation as the most important treasure house of ancient Chinese arts.
As the guardian and manager of this World Cultural Heritage site, the Palace Museum has leveraged its abundant resources of ancient buildings and relics to study the Forbidden City and the excellent traditional Chinese culture therein, organized a variety of relics exhibitions in both physical and digital forms, carried out public education activities, and published academic works and popular science books.
While showcasing time-honored and splendid Chinese civilization to the public at home and abroad, it has also co-organized cultural exchange exhibitions with partners from countries like the UK, France, Italy, Russia, Brazil, and Iran to promote exchange and mutual learning among world civilizations.
故宫博物院
故宫博物院成立于1925年，是在明清皇宫紫禁城及其收藏基础上建立起来的大型综合性博物馆。
故宫博物院拥有两大文化资源，一是紫禁城宫殿建筑，二是186万余件/套藏品。紫禁城是世界文化遗产，占地72万平方米，拥有千余座明清木结构建筑，是中国现存规模最大、保存最完整的古代宫殿建筑群。藏品主要源于清宫旧藏，包括书画、陶瓷、玉器、金银器、外国文物等多种类别，堪称最重要的中国古代艺术宝库。
故宫博物院作为故宫世界文化遗产的保护者、管理者，依托丰富的古建筑和文物资源，研究故宫及其承载的中华优秀传统文化，举办多样的文物及数字展览，开展公众教育活动，出版学术著作和普及读物。在向海内外公众展现悠久灿烂的中华文明的同时，也与英国、法国、意大利、俄罗斯、巴西、伊朗等合办中外文化交流展览，共同推动世界多元文明的交流互鉴。
