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The Palace Museum

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The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
The Palace Museum
Phone:
+86 10 8500 7421

Address:
4 Jingshan Front St, Dongcheng Qu, Beijing Shi, China, 100006

The Forbidden City is a palace complex in central Beijing, China. The former Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty , it now houses the Palace Museum. The Forbidden City served as the home of emperors and their households as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government for almost 500 years. Constructed from 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 buildings and covers 72 hectares . The palace exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture, and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987, and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world. Since 1925, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace Museum, whose extensive collection of artwork and artifacts were built upon the imperial collections of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Part of the museum's former collection is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Both museums descend from the same institution, but were split after the Chinese Civil War. Since 2012, the Forbidden City has seen an average of 15 million visitors annually, and received more than 16 million visitors in 2016 and 2017.
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