Museums of Taipei
- Kate Ross
- Jun 9, 2019
- 2 min read
08/06/19 - Taipei Fine Arts Museum
As our first roomate activity for the summer Huaizhe (Roy) brought the CET students to the Taipei Fine Arts Musuem to go see the special exhibit Musica Mobile, a Poetics of Sound and Movement. I thought it was interesting because the exhibit explored music and sound in various different media.
Below are some videos from the exhibit!
On the other floors there was an exhibit on Yu Peng and his life work. I thought that his ink paintings were particularly neat to observe. There are a vast display of different complexities of ink paintings at this exhibit!
Overall, I felt as this was more or less like any other art museum. There was a modern section, there was a more cultural section, and there was the more "out there" art.
09/06/19 - Museum of World Religions
This museum was particularly interesting, and not what I had expected. The Museum of World Religions had a wide assortment of information about every common practiced religion: Judaism, Daoism, Shintoism, Buddhism, Christianity, and many more.
For me, I thought the most interesting part was miniature replicas of major places of worship. The museum had a replica of Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, Israel; Borobudur in Java, Indonesia; Altneuschul in Prague, Czech Republic; and several others. Each miniature place of worship is significant to a different religion.
*I found it particularly funny when I reached the Dome of the Rock display because I realized that even too scale, that my proximity to this model was as close as I would ever be to the Dome of the Rock*
When I reached the display about Judaism, I was particularly intrigued when the display said...
"The oral Torah was eventually compiled and recorded; it sets forth the laws and traditions of Jewish civil and religious life. Judaism adapts to changing political and social circumstances as the Jewish community discusses and interprets the Torah. In this sense, Judaism is not a static system but is perpetually changing and regenerating itself."
I'm not entirely sure why that stuck with me, however, the entire exhibit was very interesting!
The other very interesting display at this museum was this ornate sand display. When I first saw it I thought it was some painting or very ornate fabric. It wasn't until I saw a video of people actually laying out individual grains of sand on the display that my jaw suddenly dropped. The guys who created this piece easily have all of the patience that I don't have.
This museum was easily reachable by a 15 minute walk from the Orange line at the Yongan Market Station.
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