The National Palace Museum’s treasured Jadeite Cabbage with Insects (翠玉白菜) and more than 100 other works from the museum’s collection are to be displayed in the Czech Republic for the first time starting in September, the museum said in a statement yesterday.
The exhibition, “100 objects, 100 stories: Treasures from the National Palace Museum,” is to run from Sept. 11 to Dec. 31 at the National Museum in Prague.
It would be the first time that one of the museum’s most iconic pieces — Jadeite Cabbage with Insects, a carved jadeite head of napa cabbage with a locust and katydid camouflaged in the leaves dating back to the Qing dynasty (between 1644 and 1911) — has been showcased overseas since appearing at the Tokyo National Museum in 2014 and the first time the museum’s works have ever been shown in the Czech Republic.
Photo courtesy of the National Palace Museum
Another iconic piece Along the River During the Qingming Festival (清明上河圖), a handscroll painting depicting the daily life and landscape of Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song period (between 960 and 1127), is also on exhibit.
The National Palace Museum described the overseas exhibition as a significant part of its centennial celebrations and said it was aimed at “resonating with the European public” through the works’ artistic styles and stories.
It is also hoping to introduce European audiences to the “rich and diverse cultural heritage of Taiwan,” echoing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture’s “Taiwan Culture in Europe 2025” campaign, it said.
Earlier this month, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) said that after the exhibition in the Czech Republic, the museum in November would exhibit its collection in France.
The jadeite cabbage is currently on display in Room 302 of the National Palace Museum’s Northern Branch, but would be replaced with two items from the “cabbage collection” on Friday, the museum said.
One of these items is the Mini Jadeite Cabbage (翠玉小白菜), intricately carved to capture the essence of a real cabbage, with a mantis perched on the stalk highlighting coexistence in nature.
The other piece is the Jadeite Cabbage-shaped Flower Holder (翠玉白菜花插), which was carved with techniques believed to be from the 18th to 19th century, and is triangular in shape and hollow inside.
The National Palace Museum and the National Museum in Prague signed an agreement to establish a sister museum relationship in September 2022, enabling the two sides to cooperate more closely on research and exhibition exchanges.
Auckland rang in 2026 with a downtown fireworks display launched from New Zealand’s tallest structure, Sky Tower, making it the first major city to greet the new year at a celebration dampened by rain, while crowds in Taipei braved the elements to watch Taipei 101’s display. South Pacific countries are the first to bid farewell to 2025. Clocks struck midnight in Auckland, with a population of 1.7 million, 18 hours before the famous ball was to drop in New York’s Times Square. The five-minute display involved 3,500 fireworks launched from the 240m Sky Tower. Smaller community events were canceled across New Zealand’s
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday said it is closely monitoring developments in Venezuela, and would continue to cooperate with democratic allies and work together for regional and global security, stability, and prosperity. The remarks came after the US on Saturday launched a series of airstrikes in Venezuela and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who was later flown to New York along with his wife. The pair face US charges related to drug trafficking and alleged cooperation with gangs designated as terrorist organizations. Maduro has denied the allegations. The ministry said that it is closely monitoring the political and economic situation
‘SLICING METHOD’: In the event of a blockade, the China Coast Guard would intercept Taiwanese ships while its navy would seek to deter foreign intervention China’s military drills around Taiwan this week signaled potential strategies to cut the nation off from energy supplies and foreign military assistance, a US think tank report said. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted what it called “Justice Mission 2025” exercises from Monday to Tuesday in five maritime zones and airspace around Taiwan, calling them a warning to “Taiwanese independence” forces. In a report released on Wednesday, the Institute for the Study of War said the exercises effectively simulated blocking shipping routes to major port cities, including Kaohsiung, Keelung and Hualien. Taiwan would be highly vulnerable under such a blockade, because it
UNRELENTING: China attempted cyberattacks on Taiwan’s critical infrastructure 2.63 million times per day last year, up from 1.23 million in 2023, the NSB said China’s cyberarmy has long engaged in cyberattacks against Taiwan’s critical infrastructure, employing diverse and evolving tactics, the National Security Bureau (NSB) said yesterday, adding that cyberattacks on critical energy infrastructure last year increased 10-fold compared with the previous year. The NSB yesterday released a report titled Analysis on China’s Cyber Threats to Taiwan’s Critical Infrastructure in 2025, outlining the number of cyberattacks, major tactics and hacker groups. Taiwan’s national intelligence community identified a large number of cybersecurity incidents last year, the bureau said in a statement. China’s cyberarmy last year launched an average of 2.63 million intrusion attempts per day targeting Taiwan’s critical
RSS