BUGGING OUT: Nearly 100 insect specimens and silk products can be seen along with stamps from around the world at the National Museum of Natural Science

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 06, 2020
By: Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter

An exhibition featuring hundreds of insect-themed postage stamps from around the world is on display at the National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung.

Stamps are like “miniature versions of encyclopedias,” the Ministry of Education, which runs the museum, said in a statement yesterday.

Besides enabling correspondence, stamps, from a humanities perspective, contain designs that can express regional characteristics, natural landscapes and major historical events, the ministry said.

From a scientific and cultural viewpoint, they bear the imprint of the times, and reflect scientific developments and social changes, it said.    [FULL  STORY]