National Palace Museum

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The Grand Canal scroll, read each morning by the Qing emperors together with their court officials, still rests in its place. At the Palace Museum, where murals painted by Qing dynasty artists seem to gaze down upon visitors from the ceiling, time itself comes to a halt the moment you step inside. Walking through palace corridors adorned in gold and red, a single shard of porcelain or a single brushstroke seems to carry the breath of the past.