No matter how long you're planning to stay, be sure to leave time to visit the National Palace Museum, in the suburban Waishuanghsi district.

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Kukai's World: The Arts Of Esoteric Buddhism at the Tokyo National Museum was in second place, followed by Landscape Reunited at the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

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In their flight, the nationalists under Chiang-Kai Shek took historical treasures, including most of the contents of the Forbidden City in Beijing - the National Palace Museum in Taipei is an astounding collection of hundreds of thousands of treasures.

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