Talk:National Palace Museum

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[edit] "National"

Does the museum in Beijing have 國立 in its title? The Forbidden City article leaves it out. If so, then that musuem doesn't have a "National" and "National Palace Museum" can only refer to the one in Taipei. Right? --Jiang

So it'd seem. In the official Beijing website [1], there's no mention of "National" in either Chinese or English. I'll fix this article and the redirect. --Menchi 22:37, 17 Oct 2003 (UTC)

"National" was removed from the name of the museum in Beijing in the early 1950s. --Sumple (Talk) 02:17, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ugly museum architecture

Wow, the buildings of the National Palace Museum looks really tacky. It reminded me of one of those stereotypical "Chinatown" architectures that exists in the United States. It basically resembles nothing like the Forbidden City in Beijing. I know the British Museum is controversial and its merits are hotly debated because of all the items from the Parthenon and other places, but at least the museum itself doesn't look too embarrasing. Try to imagine putting items from the Palace of Versailles into a brown colored cheap-looking French villa. Couldn't the Taiwanese government built something that looks slightly better or just return these items back to Beijing? --Bergmanesque 21:17, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I failed to see how ugly architecture is linked with returning any items. Stop your political gibberish here. -- G.S.K.Lee 12:02, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't think the buildings of the National Palace Museum looks particularly amazing either. As for the above users comments about comparing the National Palace Museum to British Museum, I think there is some truth to it, although both institutions are very different. The Greek government and Egyptian government have constantly demanded the British Museum to return its items, but since the Taiwanese government and Chinese government's relation is a lot different than the kind of relationship between Britain and Greece, its also a more complicated issue. I do think the National Palace Museum's architecture doesn't justify the kind of collections that is stored inside though. I also think the British Museum is vastly superior (albeit different) to the National Palace Museum in both architectures and collections. --67.2.149.216 23:52, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Though I do agree that the Taipei one doesn't look good, I cannot really understand what the first person means. Do you mean that the Taipei one and the Beijing have to be alike?Well, there's already "two" buildings which are look just the same as the Forbidden City in Taipei, they are the Nat'l Concert Hall and Theater Hall in CKS Memorial Hall. Won't it be weird to exist the "third" the Forbidden City there?? Besides, they have a much better interior now. I think what inside is far more important than what outside. After all, what bring us their is the artifacts not architecture.Tsungyenlee 17:22, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image gallery

There were quite a few pictures of the outside of the museum, which seemed quite redundant. So I moved them to a gallery at the bottom of the page. In addition, I uploaded a personal picture of the meat-shaped stone. Asiir 17:37, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Is it just my computer? I can't see the pictures in the gallery.--Jerrypp772000 01:24, 7 March 2007 (UTC)