Museums Established in 1964 - National Palace Museum, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: National Palace Museum, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, University Museums at the University of Delaware, Hagia Sophia, Trabzon, Northern Life Museum (Fort Smith, Nwt), Albany Museum of Art, Doncaster Museum, Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum, Iga-Ry Ninja Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The National Palace Museum is an art museum in Taipei, Taiwan. It is the national museum of the Republic of China, and has a permanent collection of over 677,687 pieces of ancient Chinese artifacts and artworks, making it one of the largest in the world. The collection encompasses over 8,000 years of Chinese history from the Neolithic age to the late Qing dynasty. Most of the collection are high quality pieces collected by China's ancient emperors. In 2008, it was the 15th most visited museum in the world. The National Palace Museum and Palace Museum, located inside the Forbidden City in China, share the same original roots, which was split in two as a result of the Chinese Civil War. The National Palace Museum was originally established as the Palace Museum in Beijing's Forbidden City on 10 October 1925, shortly after the expulsion of Puyi, the last emperor of China, from the Forbidden City by warlord Feng Yu-hsiang. The articles in the museum consisted of the valuables of the former Imperial family. In 1931, shortly after the Mukden Incident Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government ordered the museum to quickly move its most valuable pieces out of the city to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Imperial Japanese Army. Select pieces from the Palace Museum and the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum were selected for removal, as well as rare books of the Central Library and artefacts of the In...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=66184