The Museum strives to uphold Fu Ssu-nien’s, founding director of the Institute, appeals to “seek out materials from the Heavens above to the Yellow Springs, or underworld, below.” With this encouragement in mind, we exhibit the original forms and historical contexts of unearthed cultural relics, and centered on the academic achievements of the variety of disciplines here at the Institute, design exhibitions that seek to present the profound cultural meanings of the objects.
Within the continuous dialogues between museum and artifact, the cultural relic, aside from being the focal point on display, inspires the aesthetics, designs, and experiences concerning the promotion of education as well as cultural and creative development of the Museum. Moreover, owing to the participation of and interaction with the museum visitor, the dimensionality evoked by the object leads to forms of multidimensional thinking and energy.
This exhibition situates the above aesthetics, design, thinking, experience, and energy as its five core themes, demonstrating the inspiration—and its operation—found within historical objects of differing categories. Finally, an interactive “reimagining the future of MIHP” guides us in carrying on the past while also heralding the future, as well as taking our hand in discovering the Museum’s many possibilities.
Within the continuous dialogues between museum and artifact, the cultural relic, aside from being the focal point on display, inspires the aesthetics, designs, and experiences concerning the promotion of education as well as cultural and creative development of the Museum. Moreover, owing to the participation of and interaction with the museum visitor, the dimensionality evoked by the object leads to forms of multidimensional thinking and energy.
This exhibition situates the above aesthetics, design, thinking, experience, and energy as its five core themes, demonstrating the inspiration—and its operation—found within historical objects of differing categories. Finally, an interactive “reimagining the future of MIHP” guides us in carrying on the past while also heralding the future, as well as taking our hand in discovering the Museum’s many possibilities.
I Aesthetics
The presence of a cultural relic, regardless of its form or meaning, is beauty.
But if able to adopt contemporary mediums to allow the beauty of the object to traverse space and time, detaching it from its original form, and to merge into our lives and the everyday, this beauty can be readily obtained and enjoyed.
But if able to adopt contemporary mediums to allow the beauty of the object to traverse space and time, detaching it from its original form, and to merge into our lives and the everyday, this beauty can be readily obtained and enjoyed.
II Design
Despite not always being able to conform to the demands of modern life, the designs, forms, and functionality of historical objects still elicit astonishment. Their refined ingenuity not only serves as a muse for contemporary creative works, but with the help of modern design conceptions, can turn another corner, applying new meanings and joys—a crowning touch.
III Thinking
Under contrasting temporal and spatial contexts, the lifestyles and social patterns of people from ancient times, and even their understanding of the world, likely differ substantially from those of our own. But by appreciating cultural relics and enjoying the displays that decipher their meanings, we are able to surmise and imagine their surrounding everyday settings and environments. Moreover, if able to utilize modern thinking and techniques, such as the new meanings applied by the cultural and creative development of the Museum, to both introduce the lived experiences of people in the past and ponder the ways of thinking of our forebearers, the notion of “knowing the past to understand the present” can unfurl and be realized.
IV Experience
Beyond being able to visit the exhibitions, appreciate cultural relics, listen to stories, and lose ourselves in creative development, we can also “do by hand” here at the Museum! Through DIY educational activities, we may actively develop a profound understanding of as well as experience for ourselves the artifacts. By being immersed in group exercises and a cooperative environment, the guidance offered by Museum staff, teamwork between guardians and their children, encouragement from our peers, sense of accomplishment, and feeling of “so that’s how it is done” upon holding the finished product all work in tandem to create your personal “Museum experience.”
V Energy
“Hush! Please lower your voices when visiting the Museum.” But don’t the exhibition spaces give off their own bursts of laughter, cheer, and energy? The various educational activities with the enthusiastic participation of visitors willing to put on a show help move the needle, inciting the ensuing hilarity and amusement! Even the cultural relics with their hushed wisdom realize that “in talk and laughter, there are great Confucians [learned scholars],” giving the Museum an energy, some of which is contained whereas some just cannot be held back!
VI Reimagining the Future of the MIHP
Exhibitions of cultural relics at the Museum are sources of aesthetic notions, inspiration for design concepts, and databases brimming with ways of thinking.
The cultural and creative development here at the Museum is a creator of styled products, delightful playthings, and social media content.
The educational activities held at the Museum are unrivalled experiences and a new horizon to be viewed outside of the classroom, as well as containing an energy beyond one’s expectation.
But what else can the Museum be? It is a foundation on which to pursue knowledge to the end; it is an exhibition space, a setting in which limitless creation can take place; it is a creative convergence that arouses the imagination. Within your own imagination and creativity, what kinds of possibilities does the future Museum hold?
The cultural and creative development here at the Museum is a creator of styled products, delightful playthings, and social media content.
The educational activities held at the Museum are unrivalled experiences and a new horizon to be viewed outside of the classroom, as well as containing an energy beyond one’s expectation.
But what else can the Museum be? It is a foundation on which to pursue knowledge to the end; it is an exhibition space, a setting in which limitless creation can take place; it is a creative convergence that arouses the imagination. Within your own imagination and creativity, what kinds of possibilities does the future Museum hold?
