The Forbidden City, founded in 1406, is a national 5A-level tourist attraction, a world cultural heritage, a national key cultural relics protection unit, the world's largest/well-preserved Forbidden City wooden palace complex, dedicated to the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty palaces and their collections on the basis of the establishment of a comprehensive museum

The Palace Museum is a special museum.

Founded in 1925, the Palace Museum was built on the foundation of the Forbidden City, the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties. After 500 years of ups and downs, the doors of the Imperial Palace were finally opened to the public.

The Palace Museum's unique collection is the world's largest and best-preserved wooden palace complex in the Forbidden City. It is the pride of the Chinese nation and the precious cultural heritage of all mankind. Today, the 780,000-square-meter palace in the former palace forbidden place is not only a huge treasure house for collecting the treasures of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but also a living archive for recording the history of the Ming and Qing courts...... Therefore, the lifeline of the Palace Museum is attached to the palace of the Forbidden City, growing and extending along its cultural context.

Walking into the Palace Museum, you can walk along the central axis, and you can feel the broad mind of the prosperous dynasty from the ups and downs of the architectural movement; Through the exquisite furnishings of the six palaces in the east and west and the elegant layout of the inner garden, you can capture the gentle atmosphere of court life; From the yellow gauze curtain rolled up in the East Warm Pavilion of the Yangxin Palace, we can trace the historical vicissitudes of the Chinese nation's internal and external troubles a hundred years ago......

However, that's not all there is to the Palace Museum.

The Palace Museum, which has gone through 80 spring and autumn periods, not only carefully preserves the royal palaces and old treasures left over from the Ming and Qing dynasties, but also greatly enriches the cultural relics collection through state allocation, social collection and private donations, forming a series of ancient paintings and calligraphy, ancient artifacts, court cultural relics, books and archives and other fields, with a total of more than 1.8 million precious collections. Stroll through the Palace Museum's permanent cultural relics museum, or enjoy the frequent thematic cultural relics exhibitions, so that you can have a more complete understanding of the great achievements of the Chinese national arts and crafts.

Since the beginning of the new century, the Palace Museum has carried out the largest renovation project in history, rejuvenating the ancient Forbidden City and vividly demonstrating the precious traditional construction craftsmanship.

At present, researchers at the Palace Museum are conducting more in-depth and detailed research on ancient buildings, cultural relics in the collection, historical and cultural relics of the palace, archives of the Ming and Qing dynasties, classics of the Qing Dynasty, and the history of the Palace Museum in the past 80 years. The establishment of a complete system of "Forbidden City Studies" is intended to reveal to you the profound wisdom and cultural spirit of the Chinese nation contained in the Forbidden City.

In the past, due to the limitations of economic conditions and technical means, the Palace Museum, like the imperial palaces of the past, always seemed to be shrouded in mystery. However, in the past 10 years, the Palace Museum, which has entered the information age, has used the most advanced digital technology and equipment to establish a "digital Forbidden City" as brilliant as the Forbidden City in virtual time and space. Dedicating the inexhaustible cultural resources of the Forbidden City to distant audiences and friends is no longer a distant dream.

We hope that by opening the Palace Museum website as a window for you to interact, we will build a platform to promote the development of "Palace Museum Studies", and welcome you to pay attention to, supervise and jointly promote the development of the Palace Museum.

The Palace Museum is becoming more and more open, inviting you to enter this once mysterious territory and enter the temple of traditional Chinese culture.