This is the Taiwan’s National Palace Museum or, as Xioahan called it, “The real museum. The real Forbidden City.”
I’m always fascinated by timelines comparing Eastern and Western history. The Greeks overlapped with the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period? The Roman Empire was contemporaneous with the Han Dynasty? Amazing.
The Incan Empire only make it halfway through the Ming Dynasty. 
I liked this curio box with carvings of the animals of the Chinese zodiac.
Loved this colorful Go set, too. 
More curios, carefully arranged.
Peacocks look so majestic until you remember how loud & awful the sound in real life. 
I believe this is the 鹊 (que meaning “magpie”) that Debbie and I saw all over central China.
This gruesome green figure is a pala as seen guarding the gates of Buddhist temples. (Although some are sassier than others.)
There was an incongruous interactive media exhibit which I found off-putting. (Especially the CG animated nun who, based on her anime mannerisms, I felt was threatening to take off her habit at any moment.) 
I thought this knife blade was cool.
The writing on this Ming era pitcher is in Tibetan. An interesting fact check on the history of the relationship between China and Tibet.
And this is an actual Ming vase! The cobalt blue is blue because it’s cobalt.
Meanwhile, jade comes in many, disappointing colors (jadeite), but to my Western mind jade must be green (nephrite.)
I see a direct line from jade to the use of glass by the Qing Dynasty.
Looking out from the National Palace Museum at its grounds. 