Taiwan’s oldest museum, established in 1908 with a collection of more than 10,000 items, tells some interesting stories. At the National Taiwan Museum, you can find out about the island’s history, ...

The treasures housed in Taipei are at the centre of a culture war that reflects island's fractious relations with the Chinese mainland On October 10, 1925, the Forbidden City in Beijing became the ...

During China’s Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and ‘70s, mobs of communist Red Guards destroyed much of their nation’s cultural heritage. However, Chinese Nationalists retreating to Taiwan in 1949 ...

A Taiwanese museum that houses some of the world’s most precious Chinese artworks has confirmed that up to 100,000 high-resolution images of paintings and calligraphy leaked online – some of them ...

In March, amid growing fears of a Russian attack on Ukraine’s cultural capital Lviv, staff at the city’s National Museum frantically packed up and hid thousands of its treasures. Now, more than 5,000 ...

On October 10, 1925, the Forbidden City in Beijing became the Palace Museum. The massive complex of ancient imperial palaces that was home to the royalty of the Ming and Qing dynasties for centuries ...