Saturday, February 23, 2008

Museums

Have been to two musuems so far, the National Palace Museum, Taiwan's most famous museum, and the Taipei Fine Arts Musuem. The National Palace Museum is home to thousands of Chinese bronzes, jades, vases, paintings, and religious artifacts. There are some nice exhibits, but with the exception of the bronzes, most of the items are small. Very intricate, but small.


Half the exhibits at the Taipei Fine Art Museum were closed when I went on Friday which was kind of a bummer, but they do have some interesting sculptures outside.




One really nice thing about the museums here is that they're inexpensive to visit. It cost about $4 get into the the National Palace Museum and less than $1 for the Fine Arts Museum.

1 comment:

Whirling Dervish said...

Hi Rache,

Just wanted to say hi--I finally found your blog (had heard you were in Taipei)- what a fantastic experience! Hope you are well. I think Taipei is far more interesting than NJ, by the way...but I'm glad to NOT be doing SA!

Kate