Taiwan’s first national museum of contemporary Taiwanese art would open soon in Tainan with a preparatory office to be established on Tuesday next week, the Ministry of Culture said yesterday.
Artists and their families have for many years called for such a museum to be established, to facilitate the research, archiving and display of contemporary Taiwanese art, the ministry quoted Minister of Culture Li Yuan (李遠) as saying in a statement.
Many of them have donated works to the preparatory office after signing a joint statement in support of the plan, Li said.
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The Tainan City Government has agreed to provide Building 2 of the Tainan Art Museum for the planned museum, the statement said.
The new museum would become the second national museum of fine arts in Taiwan, after the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, it said.
The ministry said that after consulting with the children of late Taiwanese artists and researchers, it has determined that the planned National Tainan Museum of Fine Arts would display contemporary Taiwanese artwork from 1895 to 1960 for its permanent exhibition.
Following its opening, the museum is expected to free up some space in the Taichung museum, which is facing exhibition and storage space constraints with its large collection of exhibits since its opening in 1988.
The ministry has not announced when the planned museum would open, but said that the Tainan Art Museum would curate exhibitions this year.
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off Taitung County at 1:09pm today, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. The hypocenter was 53km northeast of Taitung County Hall at a depth of 12.5km, CWA data showed. The intensity of the quake, which gauges the actual effect of a seismic event, measured 4 in Taitung County and Hualien County on Taiwan's seven-tier intensity scale, the data showed. The quake had an intensity of 3 in Nantou County, Chiayi County, Yunlin County, Kaohsiung and Tainan, the data showed. There were no immediate reports of damage following the quake.
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