Recently, a piece about the Taipei Palace Museum and Tainan Art Museum Journalism It's scary. Ignoring the possible harm to cultural relics, relevant staff signed documents less than 3 cm away from the "treasure of town hall" and "jade cabbage", causing public criticism in the island that "precious cultural relics are regarded as nothing".
Relevant staff signed documents less than 3cm away from the "Jade Cabbage". (Source: Taiwan United News Network)
According to Taiwan media reports, the Taipei Palace Museum loaned 15 collections including "Cuiyu Cabbage" to the Tainan Art Museum for exhibition last year. The museum recently posted photos of the exhibition on the social platform, one of which recorded the handover of "Cuiyu Cabbage" between the staff of the two museums when unloading the exhibition in March this year: the staff of Tainan Art Museum directly opened the exhibition cabinet, The staff of the Taipei Palace Museum failed to stop the signing of relevant documents at the place less than 3 cm away from the "jade cabbage" without protective measures and on the platform where cultural relics are placed in the cabinet. This photo was reprinted by many netizens. After the negative public opinion was fermented, the art museum immediately removed this photo. Later, the Taipei Palace Museum responded that this process did not conform to the standard operating regulations, and the two sides did have some mistakes.
Data picture: "Jade Cabbage" collected by the Palace Museum in Taipei. Photographed by Chen Xiaoyuan, a reporter from China News Service
There are also reports from the public that cleaning personnel can enter and leave the warehouse of the South Palace of the Taipei Palace Museum without any reason. How long have you been intruded? Is something touched or even lost? Has the hospital carried out inventory and check? Such doubts have been heard in recent days.
Although the Taipei Palace Museum punished the relevant personnel afterwards, its frequent "outsourcing" (causing trouble and mistakes) has made its image of "unprofessional" and "careless" deeply rooted in both sides The hearts of the people. After all, the above incident is just the tip of the iceberg of the poorly managed Palace Museum in Taipei. In recent years, news about the "disfigurement" of the buildings and the damage of cultural relics in the Palace Museum has emerged endlessly.
It is reported that the main hall of the Taipei Palace Museum was built in 1965, with a Chinese palace style appearance, and was registered as a historical building in 2020. In recent years, due to the lack of exhibition space, plans such as "the Great Palace Museum" and "the New Palace Museum" have been proposed. However, the design plan released by the hospital shows that the square in front of the main hall will be replaced by a new glass entrance pavilion. The large gray roof is also very incompatible with the color of the palace wall. It is also necessary to make holes in the fourth floor floor to form a connected octagonal atrium and open a coffee shop. This will not only destroy the integrity of the original building complex, but also prevent the exhibition space from increasing significantly, which makes professionals and groups in the island sigh "disfigured" and criticize "neither fish nor fowl".
The Palace Museum in Taipei has a collection of about 700000 cultural relics. In recent years, there have been scandals of cultural relics damage and personnel negligence. On February 3, 2021, when the staff of the Porcelain Section of the Museum's Ware Department were sorting out the cultural relics, they found that the "delicate yellow green double dragon small bowl of the Ming Hongzhi style" was damaged after opening the package. On April 7, 2022, they found that the "dark dragon white li small yellow porcelain bowl of the Qing Kangxi style" was damaged. On May 19, 2022, due to the negligence of the staff, the "Qing Qianlong blue and white flower plate" was dropped and damaged. People from all walks of life and netizens in the island pointed out that after such problems were exposed, the hospital spent a lot of thought on dilution and avoidance, but did not invest more energy in the protection and management of cultural relics.
The low management ability of the Taipei Palace Museum is surprising, and its attitude of "admitting mistakes but not changing" is also disappointing. As we all know, historical relics carry the splendid and long culture of the Chinese nation. It is the common wish of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits that similar situations will not happen again.
Author: Yue Qing
Source: WeChat official account of China News Agency
