Nat'l Museum

This is the Nat'l Museum of Taiwan. It really is a magnifcant building and facility.

• The museum holds the world's largest collection of Chinese artifacts, around 700,000 items in all. Since the museum only has space to display around 15,000 pieces at any given time, the majority of the treasures are kept well protected in air-conditioned vaults buried deep in the mountainside. The displays are rotated once every three months, which means 60,000 pieces can be viewed in a year and it would take nearly 12 years to see them all. Furthermore, the collection continues to grow through donations and purchases.

This is definately a must see if you are ever in Taiwan. Now the reason that they have so many great artifacts is because when Chang Kai Shek fled with the KNT to Taiwan when the communists took power, they took all the treasures with them. Now I have only been to one major museum in China and it didn't hold a candle to the magnifcance of this great museum.