Palace Museum
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The Palace Museum, also known as the Beijing Palace Museum, is a large national museum complex housed in the Forbidden City at the core of Beijing, China. With 720,000 square metres, the museum inheri
Front view of the Museum
Collections of the Palace Museum being evacuated across China ahead of Japanese forces in the 1930s.
From Album of the Yongzheng Emperor in Costumes, by anonymous court artists, Yongzheng period (1723–1735).
Interior of one of the many palace halls in the Palace Museum
Puyi
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Puyi was the last emperor of China, having reigned as the Xuantong Emperor of the Qing dynasty and later as the Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state during World War II. After the war,
Palace Museum
…metres (180 acres), the museum inherited the imperial royal palaces from the Ming and Qing dynasties of China and opened to the public in 1925 after the last Emperor of China, the Xuantong Emperor (Puyi), was evicted in 1924. Constructed from 1406 to 1420, the museum consists of 980 buildings. It is home to over 1.8 million…
Puyi during the Manchukuo period
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Puyi in 1908
Prince Chun with his two sons, Puyi (standing) and Pujie