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十三行博物館 Shihsanhang Museum of Archaeology
249臺北縣八里鄉博物館路200號
886 (02) 2619-1313
admission: 100NT

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Shihsanhang Museum is located in Bali but can be reached from Tamsui.  We just need to ride a boat from Tamsui fisherman’s wharf to Bali then ride a bus going to the museum.

The museum is such an awesome site!  It has astounding architectural design that is very hippy & modern.  We even stayed a bit outside the museum appreciating all the sights there.  As you can see in the pictures, the inclined roof is actually a staircase where we can climb up and have a look into the youngest volcano in Taiwan, Taipei Harbor & even the Tamsui River.

Anyway, Shihsanhang Museum of Archaeology offers exhibits on artifacts from Taiwan’s earliest residents.  The museum had a lot of interactive areas in each of the exhibits.  It was very kid & child-friendly!  Those areas would really make your kids and also young at heart like us to be very entertained.  They will also make our brains work coz some of the games were presented in trivia form.

Here are some of the exhibits during our visit:

• Taiwan Landbridge Fauna – during the 1970s, fishermen caught a number of human & animal fossils in Penghu archipelago.  The exhibit showcased the story of those discoveries as well as excavation & restoration.
• Back to Shihsanhang – the story begins with a Major in the Taiwanese Air Force who discovered the Shihsanhang Site. While flying over the site, the major recorded strange readings. The Major’s recording and other reports on the “rescue excavation” from the site is used to introduce visitors to the Shihsanhang people who lived here.

You can find more pictures of Shihsanhang Museum of Archaeology here.

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Taipei Story House
181-1, ZhongShan N. Road, Section 3, Taipei 10461, Taiwan
886 (02) 2587-5565
admission: 50NT

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Taipei Story House was built in 2003 by a tea trader as a museum dedicated to Taiwan life culture.  The building was said to be inspired by a building a tea trader saw during his visit on the 1900 Paris Expo.

The Story House holds exhibitions, lectures, cultural performances & tea-related activities with the objective of preserving the heritage site, making it part of our modern life.

Located beside Taipei Fine Arts Museum lies Taipei Story House.  The featured exhibit at the time I visited (September 18) was Story of Old Trees.  I learned a lot about trees and its story.  The exhibit ran from August 29 to November 29, 2009.

Taiwanese do have an utmost religious respect toward old trees but only a few do understand its importance.  We’re all guilty of that right?

Upon browsing through the museum pieces, I found one interesting fact:  there are TREE doctors!  There is even Tree Treatment Procedure, here it is:

1. Clinic Registration – a tree cannot tell us if it is well or not, so we would need someone to examine the trees to discover any problem then a tree doctor will be notified to visit the trees.
2. Diagnosis – a tree doctor will examine the appearance of the tree & collect information like soil hardness & acidity.  A diagnosis will be made after much evaluation.
3. Treatment – a tree doctor will prescribe proper treatment for trees that might be infested by pests or other factors.

There were a lot of things being shared in the exhibit.  Things like how to treat trees well, secrets of old trees, why trees are important & places named after old trees in Taiwan.

This was a truely unique experience!  There were many interesting facts.  It was a nice twist to the usual museum that Taiwan has..

More pictures can be found here.