The National Taiwan Museum (NTM) has invited the new second-generation to have an overnight visit at the museum and participate in a series of exciting activities.
The National Taiwan Museum (NTM) has long been promoting the international exchanges and cultural affirmation. In recent years, it has cooperated with the government’s New Southbound policy by holding different programs and acitivites to support the New-Southbound generation such as launching a new-resident ambassador training program, inviting new residents to join the museum’s annual exhibitions or Southeast Asian cultural programs. Recently, the museum has focused on activities targeting at the new-second generation in order to cultivate their cultural awareness.
NTM revealed that it has specially selected the International Museum Day and coporated with the Chinese Association of Museums (CAM) to launch the overnight museum activitiy. In addition to sleeping with the Jurassic dinosaurs models at night, the participants have also explored the ancient monuments to learn history and have been guided at the paleontology and food biology exhibition ares. They have been introduced to Walls of Taipei (Taipei North Gate, Taipei East Gate, Taipei Auxiliary South Gate). Through Taiwan's rich natural history and interesting atmosphere, the participants have known more about Taiwan's cultural, natural and environmental characteristics.
NTM said that it has held many overnight museum events in the past, and each time the participants registered often exceeds the available slots. The museum has also actively invited children from the rural areas to join. To many of the participants, it was their first time to be in Taipei and sleep with the dinosaurs. The museum organizers are extremely touched and motivated to continue this kind of activity. They look forward to creating opportunities for the young generation to expand their horizons and learn more things about this big world as well as show their concerns with students from the rural and disadvantaged regions.
Taiwan National Museum has specially invited the ethnic dancing groups from Thailand VIT Dance Group and Indonesia Gema Anklung Group to perform at the museum. Members of the dance groups were new residents and new second-generation from Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines. They have taken part in a long-term learning and research on new residents’hometown cultural dance in order to deliver incredible performance to the audience worldwide, becoming the cultural bridge between Taiwan and their motherlands.
