Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/10/16
By: Zoe Wei and Elizabeth Hsu
Taipei, Oct. 16 (CNA) In celebration of Oct. 17 Taiwan Culture Day, 175 museums and
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cultural venues around Taiwan, including the National Palace Museum, will allow visitors free admission on that day, the Ministry of Culture (MOC) said Tuesday.
In addition, local governments have organized arts and cultural activities in which people are welcome to participate to “appreciate from experience the vitality of Taiwan culture,” the ministry said in a statement.
In 2001, then-President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) designated Oct. 17 as Taiwan Culture Day, partly to commemorate a cultural movement in the 1920s led by the Taiwanese Cultural Association, an organization established by a group of young Taiwanese people Oct. 17, 1921 with the goal of building and promoting Taiwanese culture.
Activities marking Taiwan Culture Day dropped off during the period from 2008 to 2016 when Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) was president. It was not until 2016 that the event was revived, thanks to efforts by Minister of Culture Cheng Li-chiun (鄭麗君), who vowed to promote Taiwan Culture Day into a national event. [FULL STORY]
