The National Palace Museum is heir to a succession of dynastic treasures, including Chinese landscape painting, calligraphic works, and countless artifacts. Other museums around the world are hard-pressed to match the splendor and mystery of these imperial collections. But because of the value of the collection and the past conservatism of the institution, the National Palace Museum has given off a forbidding air of unfath-omability.
承接歷代皇室收藏品的國立故宮博物院，中國書畫、器物精品無數，那來自皇家的尊榮神秘感是其他國際知名博物館難以比擬的，但是囿於藏品的尊貴與過去公務體系的保守作風，一向給人深不可測的距離感。