The National Palace Museum (simplified Chinese: 国立故宫博物院; traditional Chinese: 國立故宮博物院; pinyin: Guólì Gùgōng Bówùyuàn; Jyutping: gwok3 laap6 gu3 gung1 bok3 mat6 jyun6; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kok-li̍p Kò͘-kiong Phok-bu̍t-īⁿ; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Kwet-li̍p kù-kiung pok-vu̍t-yèn), is a museum in Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan). Established in 1925 in Beijing, it has a permanent collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of Chinese artifacts and artworks, many of which were moved from the Palace Museum as well as five other institutions throughout mainland China during the ROC retreat, making it one of the largest of its type in the world. The museum's collection encompasses items spanning 8,000 years of Chinese history from the neolithic age to the modern period. Most of the collection are high quality pieces collected by Chinese emperors. The National Palace Museum shares its roots with the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City of Beijing, whose extensive collection of artwork and artifacts were built upon the imperial collections of the Ming and Qing dynasties.