The National Palace Museum is participating in the Tourism Expo Japan for the first time, aiming to encourage visitors to experience Chinese cultural heritage in Taiwan as the museum marks its hundredth anniversary.
The National Palace Museum’s booth is part of the Taiwan Pavilion, which was unveiled on the opening day of the expo yesterday.
The booth features a reproduction of Myriad Butterflies (百蝶圖) by Qing Dynasty painter Yu Sheng (余省), official merchandise and collaborations with Sanrio and Line, the museum said in a statement yesterday.
Photo: Screen grab from the National Palace Museum’s Facebook page
Meanwhile, two short video clips — Feel the Connection and A True Taiwanese Welcome — are being screened at the booth, offering visitors a glimpse of what to expect if they visit the National Palace Museum, it said.
To celebrate its centennial, the museum plans next month to stage a series of landmark exhibitions at its Taipei branch and its southern branch in Chiayi County, it said.
The "Two Hundred Treasures: Song Dynasty Rare Books in the National Palace Museum Collection" is to open at the Taipei branch on Friday next week, representing the museum's "most comprehensive" display of its woodblock-printed Song Dynasty books, covering provenance, scholarly value, artistic qualities and preservation practices, it said.
On Oct. 10, the Taipei branch is to launch "An Assembly for the Ages: The Legend of the Northern Song Elegant Gathering in the West Garden," featuring rare calligraphy and paintings by literary giants such as Su Shi (蘇軾), Huang Tingjian (黃庭堅), Li Gonglin (李公麟) and Mi Fu (米芾), the museum said.
Both branches are to jointly present "Enduring Legacy: A Centennial Celebration of the National Palace Museum," it said.
At the Chiayi branch, highlights are to include displays of monumental Northern Song landscape masterpieces, such as Travelers Among Mountains and Streams (谿山行旅圖) by Fan Kuan (范寬), Early Spring (早春圖) by Guo Xi (郭熙) and Wind in Pines Among a Myriad Valleys (萬壑松風圖) by Li Tang (李唐).
Also on view at Chiayi would be the celebrated Tang Dynasty calligraphic work Draft of a Requiem to My Nephew (祭姪文稿) by Yan Zhenqing (顏真卿).
With these iconic works unveiled in succession, the museum expects the exhibitions to draw strong interest from Japanese enthusiasts of Chinese calligraphy and painting, it said.
The four-day expo runs until Sunday at the Aichi Sky Expo in Japan's Aichi Prefecture.
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