The Palace Museum's 1.8 million collections will be available online

The cultural relics that took seven years to complete came to an end. The Palace Museum announced the total number of collections for the first time yesterday. At present, there are 1,807,558 items in the Forbidden City, including 1,684,490 pieces of precious cultural relics. In the future, this "Roster" will be displayed on the official website of the National Palace Museum, making it easy for viewers all over the world to check and approve.

After cleanup, there were 1,807,558 items in the Palace Museum, including 1,684,490 pieces of precious cultural relics, 115,491 pieces of general cultural relics, and 7,577 specimens. The person in charge of the hospital commented: “This is the first comprehensive and accurate figure in the number of collections since the Palace Museum was founded. It marks that the collection management of the Palace Museum has entered a historic new stage.”

Compared with the data released in the past, the National Palace Museum has a total of 1.5 million pieces of cultural relics, and the total number of items in the National Palace Museum with a total of 940,000 items, Beijing's Forbidden City has a more substantial family background. In this regard, the hospital explained that 940,000 pieces of cultural relics in the account refer only to the precious cultural relics of the first, second, and third grades identified in accordance with the national cultural relics law. The clean-up work for the first time included 600,000 pieces of ancient and ancient building collections in cultural relics management. This includes 400,000 rare books, ancient books and more than 200,000 printed book editions collected by the Palace Museum. In addition, more than 110,000 pieces of ordinary cultural relics and 130,000 pieces of copper coins, etc., which were produced by the Qing Dynasty “Style Lei”, were upgraded to cultural relics.

It is worth mentioning that during the clean-up process, a group of precious historical data was first promoted to cultural relics. For example, there were 22,703 pieces of post-Qi paintings and paintings in the Qing Dynasty. “In the past, only the garments of the emperor's heirs were emphasized, and a considerable amount of clothing patterns and clothing boxes were not given enough attention. In fact, they were an important part of the Qing Dynasty costumes, and another 10,000 red-green-headed signatures reflecting Qing officials’ glimpse of the emperor system. , Thousands of Yaopai that reflect the guard system of the Imperial Palace are also promoted as cultural relics.”

The completion of the clean-up does not mean the end. According to the person in charge of the Palace Museum, the National Palace Museum will select the most representative 150,000 pieces of National Palace Museum cultural relics according to the total number of collections by 15:1. According to different categories, the "National Palace Museum Collection" will be published. ” It is estimated that the total scale will reach 500 volumes.

At the same time, in order to facilitate social supervision and tourist inquiries, the Forbidden City is making an electronic version of the “Roster”—“Collection of Cultural Relics” for these cultural relics. By then, tourists can see the names, pictures, and times of the cultural relics with just a click of the mouse, and even the collection numbers that have been kept confidential before can be seen at a glance. "In the first half of this year, the National Palace Museum will complete the preparation of 1.6 million pieces of the total purpose of the cultural relics, mainly the rubbings of the Fas’ books, and will be announced to the public in due course."

In addition, the cultural relics cleanup combined with the overhaul of ancient buildings, especially the adjustment of the layout of cultural repositories, improved the storage conditions. The Forbidden City revealed that it will strengthen the anti-seismic work of cultural relics in the future.