The Tainan City Museum, formerly the Koxinga Museum, opened in its new form yesterday as the city prepares for the fourth centennial of its founding next year.
After nearly three years of renovations, the museum has been transformed. It has four sites: the Tainan City Museum, the Tainan City Zuojhen Fossil Park, the Tainan Shan-Shang Garden and Old Waterworks Museum, and the Tapani Incident Memorial Park.
At the opening ceremony, Deputy Minister of Culture Sue Wang (王時思) said that integration of the sites would bring culture into people’s lives.
Photo: Hung Jui-chin, Taipei Times
Hopefully, cultural governance would be prioritized everywhere in Taiwan, Wang said.
Exploring culture allows Taiwanese to learn more about their homeland, and that knowledge leads to a sense of identity and confidence, she said.
The Tainan City Museum has about 5,500 artifacts spanning from ancient to modern times, with the collections telling numerous stories, including of the interactions between the Dutch and indigenous people, how the Qing Empire extended its reign over parts of Taiwan and the transformative changes brought by the arrival of the Japanese, the Tainan City Government said.
Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che (黃偉哲) and National Palace Museum Director Hsiao Tsung-huang (蕭宗煌) attended the opening.
The transformation of the Tainan City Museum and the new sites is an act of cultural heritage preservation and gives people a chance to interact with cultural relics, Huang said.
A permanent exhibition titled Creating Tainan: Our History and a special exhibition titled Traditional Grocery Stores tell the story of Tainan’s development over the past 400 years, including how diverse groups of people arrived in Taiwan and the range of cultures that resulted from their arrival, the Tainan City Government said.
In addition to curating exhibitions, the museum has also launched its own brand “南博ONE,” (similar in pronunciation to “No. 1”) in a bid to make Tainan the nation’s first “museum city,” the city said.
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