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The Republic Of China National Palace Museum.

They have enough stuff rescued in the nick of time from the Mainland . . . thereby escaping destruction during the Cultural Revolution . . . to change the displays on one of 3 main large floors . . . every 6 months . . . and still it would take them 11 years to get through all the stuff.

I guess those facts have changed:

The displays are rotated once every three months, which means 60,000 pieces can be viewed in a year and it would take nearly 12 years to see them all.[13]

From this link on Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Palace_Museum#The_Museum_building

Here’s the official NPM English site:

http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/home.htm

And the NPM digital:

http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/visiting/exhibit/exhibit_08.htm?docno=683

And the 3D VR section:

http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/collection/3dvr.htm

At the link just above:

The boat carved from an olive pit is a sample of the sort of miniature treasure the museum has a lot of.

The boat comes apart as you manipulate the center button under it.

The carved ivory ball is typical. IIRC, they can get as many as 11 or 13 balls within the outer ball. Each ball moves freely and independently of the others.Ahhhh the narrative text intro says this particular ball has 21 layers.

The structure part of the ivory ball will take you outside in to outside again with the slider.

The revolving vase here:

http://tech2.npm.gov.tw/da/3d/en/intro.htm

is quite fascinating for a potter.

Maybe I’ll post some more pics later.