About Exhibits
This section sails the world of digital humanities on Tong-an ships with the company of illustrated characters. The expedition features the Child Pillow, the Jade Duck, the Jade Bixie Amulet, the Auspicious Roe and the Vietnamese Lemur. Child Pillow becomes a righteous character that is bubbly and clever, Jade Duck is full of curiosity and often gets into trouble, and Jade Bixie Amulet is extremely knowledgeable. These national treasures embody a marvelous dynamic between the museum collection and animated effects. "National Treasures in NPM ", is designed based on selected pieces from the museum's collection: Dwelling in the Fu-chun Mountains, Besotted by Flower Vapors, and One Hundred Horses. Digital simulation techniques preserve the expressions of the original works and contrast the unique styles of Eastern and Western paintings with its screenplay. It also demonstrates the importance of rhythmic breath in calligraphy. In "Adventure in the NPM: The Formosa Odyssey" the illustrated characters depart from the Department of Multimedia Room in the National Palace Museum, cross the Black Ditch on the Tong-an ships, and arrive back in time in Qing dynasty Taiwan. Would you dare to encounter large waves at the Black Ditch, experience the screeching bombardment at Fort Zeelandia, and be faced with the growls of the Taiwanese black bear? Come aboard the Tong-an ships and begin this thrilling adventure!
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Adventures in the NPM: The Formosa Odyssey
An antique underwater world is reimagined! In " An Underwater World of Fantasy ", creatures from the Illustrated Album of Sea Oddities depicted in the Qing dynasty are realized in this immersive onsite aquarium. These antique albums manifest people’s observation and imagination of sea creatures at the time, and they also demonstrate the artists’ perspectives on natural history and their impressive range of knowledge. Dive into the "Deep Sea of the Museum" and experience a marvelous performance of our digital collection. The "Marvels within the Sea Immersive Interactive Tunnel" and the "Sea Monster Interactive Wall" are inspired by Illustrated Album of Sea Ornaments and Illustrated Album of Sea Oddities respectively, and the audience is invited to play with sea creatures interpreted through the artists’ eyes three hundred years ago. Bringing imagination to life with modern day technology, "Camouflaged in the Scene" features digital projections and sculptures of sea creatures to create an interactive world in the place of album pages from the original artifact.
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Illustrated Album of Sea Miscellany
- Nie Huang, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Album leaf, 30.4 x 68cm
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Illustrated Album of Sea Oddities
- Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Album leaf, 40.3 x 55.2 cm
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Dwelling in the Fu-chun Mountains is a landscape masterpiece from the museum’s collection. Not only does it depict the Fu-chun River, it also portrays the ideal landscape for Huang Kung-wang. Can the styles of landscapes by masters around the world be compared stylistically? What kind of paintings would be created, if Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Claude Monet (1840-1926), and Vincent van Gogh (1853- 1890) had visited the Fuchun River? This section presents immersive theatre "Impressions of Fu-Chun" to initiate a stylistic discourse across the centuries and distance. Using an artificial intelligence technology called the Adaptive Instance Normalization (AdalN), the styles of Monet, Cézanne and Van Gogh is learned to subsequently allow a computer to "paint" the Dwelling in the Fu-chun Mountains in the styles of these European masters. Digital technology has allowed a stylistic encounter of the East and West beyond the constraints of time and space. In addition, this section applies AI technology to aesthetic education with the aim to facilitate learning in stylistic appreciation. Featuring Cézanne's mountain and rocks, Huang Kung-wang's riverside and Van Gogh's starry night. "The Illusive Landscape" is an on-site immersive set design, where a fantastical and fictional landscape has been digitally constructed. With innovative projection methods, the sceneries move and interchange to combine and contrast the light, texture, colors and details created by the four artists, and thus presenting to the audience the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western landscape painting.
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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (Wu-yung Version)
- Huang Kung-wang (1269-1354), Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)
- Handscroll, ink on paper 33 x 636.9 cm
"The Master Wuyung Scroll" version of Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains is composed of six joined pieces of paper and measures more than six meters in length. The first section of paper has traces of damage where repairs were done. Suffering from fire in 1650, the first part of the scroll was cut off (and now is in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum collection). The painting features layers of brush and ink, the landscape forms outlined and washed with great variation. The mountain shapes throughout the scroll range from rounded ones up close in layers stacked to the back to gently rolling slopes and banks, and even lofty peaks, revealing a rich variety to the landscape pattern. This handscroll painting not only represents scenery of reclusion in Fuchun, it even more so reflects Huang Gongwang's idealized image of the landscape transformed through his exploration of nature.
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A museum of the 21st century should be one that is intellectual, accessible, open-minded and reflective of universal values. Through digital technology, humankind has created a brand new world that is ever more suitable for sharing and open for creativity. The museum has now opened its doors online to welcome more creative ideas that would help construct a new museum model. On this inviting and engaging planet, ten objects perform sensational stories in "Palace of Serendipity", and overturns the stereotypes of object interpretation. In addition, color in the classic masterpiece with personal touches in "Lab Fantastic" and contribute creativity through hands-on activities and operation in the adventures presented in the puzzle-solving worksheet. In recent years, the National Palace Museum has been proactively sharing its collection with the world through Open Data. Select and edit your own exhibition in the exquisite online gallery, and become a one-of-a-kind curator online. The dreams that you bring forth will become part of this exhibition and make the Museum of Tomorrow a dream-making planet that belongs to you and I.
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One Hundred Fantastic Steeds
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Palace of Serendipity
