National Palace Museum, Taipei

I love the way that one thing leads to another on the Web. I find an article in the New York Times, or somewhere else, I do a Google search, and suddenly I'm looking at an exhibit from the other side of the world.
The exhibits page at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan has links to past exhibits back to 1999. The earliest one that I found was on The Art of Embroidery from early 1999. The presentation is much simpler than the latest one I saw which was Grand View:Ju Ware from the Northern Sung Dynasty. This is a beautifully set up site but can be memory eating and Flash-intensive. The 'Introduction' (Flash plugin needed) and 'Sections & Selections' tabs go in entirely different directions. On my laptop, I found that it was a good idea to have something to read while the pages were loading. The careful thought behind the site is evident, although I would have liked a pause button in some of the displays.

Discovered via an article in the New York Times Rare Glimpses of China’s Long-Hidden Treasures.