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Visiting the Southern Branch of Taiwan’s National Palace Museum
Taiwan’s most famous museum is the National Palace Museum (NPM), which houses over a thousand years’ worth of Chinese imperial treasures. Located in Taiwan’s capital Taipei, the NPM only features Chinese exhibits*, not Taiwanese. In order to make its vast holdings more accessible to the nation, Taiwan opened a southern branch of the NPM in […]
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Visiting the British Museum
The British Museum is a grand British institution, being one of the world’s finest museums and home to countless great artifacts and works of arts since the mid-18th century. It is also the best museum I’ve ever been to. Whenever I visit major cities, whether it be Cape Town or Xian or Tokyo, history museums […]
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Taiwan
Taiwan travel
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Visiting Taiwan’s Lanyang Museum
When it comes to museums, Taiwan doesn’t seem to have any famous ones other than the National Palace Museum, which showcases imperial Chinese treasures brought across from China by Chiang Kai-shek in the mid-1940s. But in reality, Taiwan has several great museums that are impressive, innovative, and feature insightful and fascinating exhibits. One of these […]
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Visiting Berlin’s Museum Island, Neues Museum
I really like visiting museums, especially those that focus on history, anthropology and archaeology. Berlin is ideal for museum lovers like myself because of Museum Island, a cluster of museums on the northern half of an island in the Spree River, right in the middle of the city. Museum Island consists of five museums, each […]
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Asia’s top history museums
Asia is a continent with thousands of years of history, with several of the oldest civilizations in the world. So it is not surprising that there are some great history museums in the region. While most people know about the Louvre, the British Museum and the Smithsonian museums, Asian museums don’t have similar name recognition, […]
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Visiting Beijing’s National Museum of China
The National Museum of China is the country’s main history museum, located right in the center of Beijing. Given China’s significant history that spans over 3,000 years and over 8 major dynasties, it takes a massive museum to cover all of this. The National Museum of China is indeed a giant, covering over 3,000 square […]
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Sri Lanka travel
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Visiting Sri Lanka’s National Museum of Colombo
Sri Lanka is a small island country that is probably one of the world’s best travel destinations. One reason is that this small country has over 2,000 years of recorded history and is rich in culture and ancient architecture. In the capital of Colombo, the best place to experience this history is the National Museum […]
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