The Museum of the Imperial Palace of Manchukuo (Chinese: 偽滿皇宮博物院) is a museum in the northeastern corner of Changchun (長春) City, Jilin (吉林) Province, northeast China. The palace was the official residence of Manchukuo (滿州國).
The palace covers an area of 43,000 square meters which is extremely big, so the tourist center provides headsets for visitors.
The palace was created by the Imperial Japanese Army for China's last emperor Puyi (溥儀) to live in as part of his role as Emperor of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.
Behind the main gate Xingyun Gate (興運門) is a clock, the hands of clock stopped at 9 o’clock past 10, the time when Puyi escaped from the palace on 11 August 1945.
Yinghui Gate (迎暉門) is the second main gate of the palace, the word ‘暉’ is composed of ‘日’ and ‘軍’, which means Japanese Army in Chinese.
The Manchurian Imperial Palace was designed as a miniature version of the Forbidden City in Beijing, which is a combination of Chinese, Japanese and Russian styles, a silent witness of this place in that era.
The western imperial garden is quite small, but it still includes a rockery, a pond and a Japanese styled pavilion, Choumeizai wonders if Puyi can enjoy such pale scenery.
