Hong-Gah Museum an Interesting Place in Taipei!

Hong-Gah Museum an Interesting Place in Taipei

What is Hong-Gah Museum?

Hong-Gah Museum was formally opened to the public in 1999. With exhibitions, campaigns, inter-disciplinary performances, and so forth, the Museum provides an art appreciation venue of quality as well as sows seeds of art for the local community. Having opened for more than 20 years, the Museum received its membership as one of the Local Cultural Museums of Ministry of Culture in 2003

Furthermore, the Museum has been recognized many times with “Arts & Business Awards” and “Taipei Culture Award”. Hong-Gah Museum has long been devoting itself to educational courses and lectures to promote aesthetic education in the community. On top of that, it serves as a platform for the showcase of contemporary art via regular themed events such as the biennale “Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition” and solo exhibitions of artists from home and abroad. Hong-Gah Museum expects itself to be the starting point of profound art cultivation, through the promotion of community culture, elevating the spiritual life of the public and ultimately demonstrating local community’s cultural landscape in warmth and of humanity.

Reference: https://hong-gah.org.tw/en/hong-gah-museum?fbclid=IwAR0WD9vKBi2eqG7ZSN_M3BgeUp9HJR-d2-l05VFnRCeSrG1WDqHtX5TbH8o

Getting Here  

• Train – Qiyan Station of Tamsui-Xinyi Line, turn left after Exit 1 Sanhe Street and walk to Daye Road, turn left, then walk for five minutes.  
• Bus – Take 218, 266, 302, 223 and get off at “Hong-Gah Museum” or “MRT Qiyan Station”.  
• Car – Chengde Road Section 7 then turn right to Daye Road, arrive at No.166. Building with parking.

Visit Information

Address: 11F., No. 166, Daye Rd., Beitou Dist., Taipei City 11268, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

  Time: 10:30-17:30 Tuesday to Sunday
Schedule: Closed on Monday, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese New Year Admission is free. For Guided Tour Service, more than 5 people please make your reservation online one week in advance.

Contact Information

Telephone No. +8862-2894-2272 +8862-2897-3980

Email add: [email protected]

Reference: https://hong-gah.org.tw/en/hong-gah-museum?fbclid=IwAR0WD9vKBi2eqG7ZSN_M3BgeUp9HJR-d2-l05VFnRCeSrG1WDqHtX5TbH8o

Hong-Gah Collections

Hong-Gah Museum collected over 500 pieces of the 1950s modern embroidery art, where artworks spanned across a great variety of embroidering techniques and forms, making them the most luxurious private collection among the Asia-Pacific area.

Embroidery art has its origin in practical life usages such as clothing and interior ornament etc. Clinging closely to the changing aesthetics throughout different eras, it has gradually paved its way into the room of delicate fine arts.

As Song Dynasty highly valued the scholarly and refined, cultivated tastes, painting embroideries that imitate calligraphies and paintings of famous scholars were hence well-received. Needles and threads were the brush pens and inks of the embroiderers, while they not only precisely represented the strikes and flows of the brush pens on paper, but also vividly illustrated the spirits of characters. Moreover, the silkiness and glossiness of the threads had added lifelike effects onto the tableaux.

Techniques and the art of embroidery culminated during the modern era when embroiderers managed to achieve major professional breakthroughs with the support of maturing technological, environmental, as well as material conditions. Highly developed techniques and embroiderment such as imitation embroidery, free stitch embroidery, double-sided embroidery, dual variant embroidery technique etc. flourished and thus cultivated an advanced embroidery industry. Continuous explorations and inheritance of skills and artistry had written down the most brightly-colored chapter in the history of Chinese arts and crafts.

Reference: https://hong-gah.org.tw/en/collections

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