The establishment of the Palace Museum is based on the nature and business needs of the Palace Museum. Among many departments in the museum, the library is not only a business department, but also a professional and characteristic library serving the museum.
The Palace Museum is a professional library of cultural relics museum based on the royal collection of Qing Dynasty. Its collection is an important part of the existing ancient books in China.
The purpose and main responsibilities of the special collection of the Forbidden City Library;
The purpose of the special collection is to appreciate. The library of the Palace Museum is the business department of the Palace Museum, which manages and studies books, cultural relics and documents. Its contents are mainly historical records, celestial calculations, epigraphy, calligraphy and painting, Buddhist scriptures and the collections of various ancient scholars. In addition to a large number of Chinese books, there are also a number of Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan and palindrome books.
The main responsibility is to perform the collection and preservation, collection and selection, classification and cataloging, reading and circulation, restoration and protection, research and development, digitization and other work of rare and special collections of ancient books, ordinary ancient books, internal versions of Ming and Qing governments, etc.