NCKU Museum

On the NCKU Campus we have the National Cheng Kung University. It currently has 6 exhibits:

1. Campus Ecology

2. The Partnership between NCKU and Purdue during the 50s

3. The Bo-Yih Country House

4. Professor Su Xue Lin's Study

5. Old Lifestyle in Taiwan

6. Ancient locks of China

A couple hours is more than enough time to see everything.(Although I have gone their twice.) The displays are very professional with both Chinese and English descriptions. You can take pictures as long as you don't use the flash.

 

From the Prudue/NCKU exhibit they have a lot of old science equipment that was part of the exchange. I also feel old when I see what I use to work with on display at a Museum. I remember how excited I was to be working with just this kind of equipment and now to see it on display is a little sad.

I believe part of the reason for the partnership was that Taiwan in the 50s was part of the defense perimeter around Communist China.

This is an example of the Family Shrines that familys use to remember their ancestors. This is from the exhibit of "Lifestyle of Old Taiwan". Many families still have these shrines so the one in the Museum wasn't that special.

Here is a section from the frame of an Ancestral Temple it was built in the Traditional Chinese method. This is also from the "Lifestyles of Old Taiwan". They also have an extensive collection of ceramics going back thousands of years.

This is a scene from the "Po-Yih Country House". It is in the style of Japanese.

The exhibit of lock also goes back thousands of years and does a great job explaining how locks work and how they evolved. I learned a lot.