The building of National Museum of History (also referred to as NMH) was formerly the “Reception Hall” during the Japanese colonial period, and was subsequently served as an exhibition hall for the Government-General of Taiwan. In 1955, the NMH was established and it underwent annual construction and renovations beginning in 1958, with the addition of two wings featuring a Chinese palace-style wall. Then there was a period when Chinese and Japanese style architecture coexisted. Through the “National Museum of History and National Gallery Reconstruction Plan” in 1975, the building was transformed into a Chinese palace-style structure made of reinforced concrete completely. In 2007, the Taipei City Government registered the museum building as a historical building. The renovation of important historical paintings, roof tiles, and exterior walls has been entrusted to skilled craftsmen, including the renovation of two pairs of painted door gods at NMH, personally undertaken by the original artist, Mr. Wu-nan Zhuang. Through the renovation of NMH, it is hoped to preserve the historical and collective memory of time and space and to cordially invite audience once again to the NMH.

The National Palace Museum is a museum in Taipei, Taiwan. It has a permanent collection of nearly 700,000 pieces of Chinese artifacts and artworks.The museum's collection encompasses items spanning 8,000 years of Chinese history from the neolithic age to the modern period. The National Palace Museum shares its roots with the Palace Museum of Beijing, whose extensive collection of artwork and artifacts were built upon the imperial collections of the Ming and Qing dynasties.