Saturday, Sept. 18 5 of us set out for the Royal Palace Museum. This museum is very popular and it was a “must see”. The museum is in control of 700,000 pieces. The day was a wee bit rainy as we waited for Typhoon Fanapi to move in.
This is the walk up to the museum
Exhibit Hall
Library
The cost was 160NT per person so $5.00. Reasonable.
No cameras allowed…most of the artifacts belong elsewhere.
The selections ranged from paintings, calligraphy, rare books, scrolls, ceramics, bronzes, jades and curios.
The most famous item was the jade cabbage. It was housed in a room 15x30. Better you are thinking that is one big jade cabbage. But it was not, they like to have plenty of room around their show cases. So these large rooms hold 2-5 items. Loads of wasted space, which explains why the museum only displays 15,000 pieces at a time. It takes 12 years to swap out the pieces.
I enjoyed the meticulous carvings in ivory of miniature nested boxes, circles inside circles, and figurines.
There was a special exhibit on Tibetan Buddhas which were interesting too.
Well we can check that museum off our list.
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