Real objects and journeys of the spirit In 1989 the National Palace Museum began a complete inventory of the items brought from the imperial palace in Beijing and from the National Central Museum in Nanjing, and of the items acquired in Taiwan by donation and purchase. The inventory took two years, and revealed that the original collection agreed completely with the old records.
民國七十八年，故宮對當年從北京故宮及南京中央博物院帶出的文物，以及在台接受捐贈與購藏所得展開大清點，歷時兩年，結果與原始清冊完全符合，共計六十四萬多件。