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National Palace Museum (国立故宫博物院)

The National Palace Museum (国立故宫博物院) is our first destination on the second day of our Taiwan trip. After we had our yummy yummy siu long bao (上海小笼包) breakfast, we took the MRT from Taipei Main Station(台北车站) to Shilin Station(士林站).

Bus station, right in front of the entrance of Shilin Station.
these buses will take us to the National Palace Museum

The bus arrived after 5 minutes and about 10 to 15 minutes later, we arrived at the National Palace Museum. We paid by easy card (悠游卡), so can’t remember how much is the bus fare.

The entrance of the National Palace Museum (国立故宫博物院), grand right?

A long long way to walk..

and now.. have to climb up stairs.. lot’s of it..tired leh..

It seems quiet…not much tourists..

this is the National Palace Museum’s office block
which we’re not allowed to enter.

this building is behind the office block, guess what’s inside the building?

FOOD!! that’s right, it’s a restaurant!

apartments, opposite the museum

beautiful garden..

The first thing you see when you walked in from the entrance will be the counter that provides handheld audio. The handheld audio will act as your personalized guided tour of the museum. You can choose the highlighted exhibits that you’re interested and learn about them. We both regretted for not getting the handheld audio.

beside the audio counter is the ticket counter

and beside the ticket counter, is the coffee shop

nt 160 (RM 18.80) for adults and nt 80 (RM 9.40) for students.
We flashed our Youth Travel Cards (青年旅遊卡)
and we got a 50% discount!! Cool!!

our “student” tickets. nt 80 per person
so old d still can get student tickets.. so happy.. :p

the entrance to the museum

The National Palace Museum is an art museum in Taipei City, Taiwan. It ranks as one of the four best museums in the world. That is why even you might not interested in these thing (i’m talking about me lar..), you should pay a visit to this museum too. hehe.. The museum holds the world’s largest collection of Chinese artifacts (700,000 items). You will only find about 15,000 pieces at one time due to the limited space and the display will be rotated every 3 months. In other words, it will take you about 12 years to view all the 700,000 pieces!

There are altogether 3 floors and there are a few halls in each floor. Each hall exhibits different artifacts categories such as bronze, painting, jades, ceramics, calligraphy, rare books, documents, curios, pottery and etc. We were not allowed to take any pictures, else I’ll definitely show you a few pieces of jade that is REALLY nice!

We spent about 3 hours in the museum and I bought a name card holder for FL which costs me nt 300 (RM 35).

The Chihshan Garden (至善园)
The garden features fine Sung Dynasty landscaping.
FL and I decided to skip this as we both were too tired to walk. hehe..

We took a bus back to the Shilin MRT Station and had our steamboat lunch before we proceed to the next destination.

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Tags: Gu Gong, National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Travel