Sunset, Forbidden City#
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Today it is the Palace Museum showing artifacts from the Ming to the Qing Dynasties (14th to 20th centuries).
The complex - on the World Heritage Site list since 1987 - consists of 980 surviving buildings on 72 hectares (178 acres) and is the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.