After being moved several times during the war with Japan and then the Chinese civil war, on Chiang Kai-shek's orders the finest pieces were taken to Taiwan where they were stored in tunnels in a mountainside, until the National Palace Museum was built in Taipei.
之後又迭經中日戰爭、國共內戰，文物數次播遷，蔣介石先生下令擇其精華部份運抵台灣，藏在山洞中，直到故宮博物院在台北重建復館，而有今日的規模。