A Travellerspoint blog

Dec 2006

National Museum of History

The National Museum of History was built to construct a comfortable learning and recreational environment that fosters humanism and nature. It seeks a balance between the indigenous, the Chinese, and the international, grasping the cultural diverse value of human beings, and expanding the collection in the Taiwan historical conception and connection with the international society in interactive learning and displaying.

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Museum of Formosan Aborignes

The Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines is an ethnological museum which opened in June, 1994. The Museum is geared primarily towards preserving, researching, and exhibiting aboriginal artifacts.

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National Science & Education Center

The NTSEC was founded in 1956. In the past 50 years the NTSEC has developed along side Taiwan's scientific education, spreading the seeds of science. In recent years, the NTSEC has cooperated with the Department of Education to enact public science education and life long learning. It takes science out of the lab and into everyday life, allowing people to discover science in their own daily lives.

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Tittot Museum

Tittot's glass works are suffused with the literate heritage and contemporary exuberance of China. They bring China into the international glass art universe with the bright and open aesthetics of the 21st century, while still preserving China's splendor and refinement.

Tittot's ceaseless pursuit of creativity and craftsmanship insure that each and every work is legendary. Tittot's have been collected by the Beijing National Palace Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum of Art and Crafts in the UK, the Takayama Glass Museum in Japan, the museums of history in Taipei in Beijing, the Museo del Vidrio of Mexico, and other national museums throughout the world since 1993.

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Museum of Archaeology

The establishment of the Museum of Archaeology was undertaken at the Shihsanhang Site in 1990. In 1992 the Executive Yuan ordered Taipei County government to establish a Shihsanhang Site Exhibition Room to display objects unearthed in the area. In 1998 this was renamed the Shihsanhang Museum of Archaeology and given the central objectives of preserving and displaying artifacts unearthed at the Shihsanhang Site, serving as an archaeology museum for all of northern Taiwan and an educational center, teaching people about the importance of the area. After its official opening in 2003, the Museum has also become an Ecomuseum of the Bali Left Bank.

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