The relocated Kaohsiung Museum of Labor — the nation’s only museum dedicated to the role of labor in Taiwan’s industrial culture — is set to be reopened in the city’s Cianjin District (前金) on July 25.
The museum is to host two permanent, interactive exhibitions about the daily lives of Kaohsiung workers and workers’ movements. A further special exhibition details the relationship between comics, the video game industry and workers, museum representatives said.
Visitors can learn how to load and unload cargo at a mock-up of a wharf, how a ship is disassembled into spare parts, make an entertaining video game and create an animated movie from scratch, the museum said.
Photo: Huang Chien-hua, Taipei Times
The museum was originally at the Pier-2 Art Center in the city’s Yancheng District (鹽埕), but moved to its current location near the Kaohsiung Museum of History and Kaohsiung Film Archive.
As a prelude to the museum opening, a flash mob was organized yesterday at an old dock at the Port of Kaohsiung, at which participants wearing traditional dockworkers’ clothing performed dances and recreated the working environment of a ship typical of a bygone era, the labor museum said.
To make workers’ stories better known to the public, the museum is running a campaign asking for the photographs and stories of workers, some of which would be featured at an upcoming exhibition, the museum said.
People can send photographs of workers and their stories to the Kaohsiung Labor Worker Recreation Center Hostel by post or by e-mail.
A cash prize is to be awarded to those whose work is selected, the labor museum said.
The campaign is to run through Sept. 30, with details available at the museum Web site: http://museum_new.kcg.gov.tw.
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