Taipei Times
Date: Jul 17, 2018
By: Ann Maxon / Staff reporter
The National Palace Museum (NPM) should reflect the history of East Asia
Newly appointed National Palace Museum Director Chen Chi-nan, center, accompanied by deputy directors Lee Ching-hui, left, and Huang Yung-tai, speaks at a news conference at the museum in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Chen Yi-kuan, Taipei Times
from a Taiwan-
centric perspective to make it more relatable to Taiwanese, instead of allowing it to remain “a Chinese enclave,” newly inaugurated museum Director Chen Chi-nan (陳其南) said yesterday.
“Ask an Aborigine, a direct descendant of the earliest inhabitants of this land, to visit the museum and tell you if they feel the museum represents them, and none of them will say it does. The museum as it is now is a Chinese enclave and not a part of Taiwan,” Chen told a news conference in Taipei a day after his inauguration.
His vision is to transform it into a Taiwanese museum by reinterpreting the objects on display and curating its exhibitions in a way that tells the history of East Asia from a Taiwanese perspective, he said. [FULL STORY]
