Title: On incubating the national identity : a discussion on NPM's recent exhibition policy

Authors: Tseng Chen, Yuan

Place: [Paris

Publisher: International council of museums (ICOM)

Year: 2006]

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Subject: Culture for Development Directory

Keywords: exhibitions, nation building, taiwan

Abstract: Drawing on 2 major international exhibitions of the National Palace Museum (NPM) in Taiwan it is discussed how the exhibitions' message and content conformed with the government's policy of localization and made the NPM a medium and carrier of the attempt to generate a Taiwanese national identity.

URL: http://intercom2006-taipei.cam.org.tw/en/pdf/14.pdf

Document type: Portal