Taipei Day Trips

The Museum of Drinking Water shows the treatment of water. Such treatment is of utmost importance today because of the increasing pollution by industrial and household wastes as well as agricultural chemicals. Drinking untreated water can be hazardous to your health. It can even be lethal in more serious cases. This section will introduce to you the facilities and process of TWD's water treatment and distribution system.

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.

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.

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.

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.