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Museum of the National Cultural Palace was built in 1959. It was the first national and large-scale national museum built after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Up to now, it has collected and preserved about 50 thousand piece of cultural relics and material objects from 55 minority ethnic groups in China. The number and the variety of collections help the museum rank first among other Chinese museum of the same kind. It has a professional researching team of members from different nationalities. The museum has published some monographs on the research of national cultural, such as Clothing of China's Miao Nationality, Clothing of China's Yi Nationality, National Masks of China's Minority Ethnic Groups, and Social and Historical Materials of Tibet, China. Museum of the National Cultural Palace has been dedicated to the exploration, categorizing, researching, protection, and presentation of national culture. Since its establishment, the museum has organized over a hundred exhibitions and displays of different types of national culture, including some excellent exhibitions held in the United States, Japan, former USSR, Malaysia, South Korea and Hong Kong, which brought China's colorful and outstanding traditional culture of its minority ethnic groups onto the world stage, and made positive contribution to the exchange of Chinese and world cultures. Museum of the National Cultural Palace joined China Museum Academy and Beijing Museum Academy respectively in 1981 and 1985. In 1995, it became one of the 55 museums, which composed the first group of museums registered by Beijing municipal government