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National Palace Museum (國立故宮博物院 - Short name is 故宮), 221 Zhishan Road Sec. 2. Tel:+886 2 2881-2021 [2]. Probably Taiwan's top sight. Due to the Sino-Japanese War the Nationalist Government took artifacts from Beijing so they wouldn't be harmed. After the war ended, the Chinese civil war continued and thus the Kuomintang shipped them to Taiwan. Needless to say, the Communists weren't very ha...more
