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Title: The Interactive Exhibition Area

   
Through hands-on, visual, and listening activities, the exhibitions use the ideas of the artifacts from the main exhibition as a foundation, and designs short animations and interactive programs to help children learn more effectively.

Title: "Making the Ancient Books"
   
Try it! Experience how people back then printed, bound, and stored their books. How are the procedures different from those used today? Through hands-on experience with the "Bookmaking Workshop" multimedia film, movable type printing method, and thread bookbinding, children can realize ancient people's techniques and wisdom in bookmaking.
 
"Making of the Ancient Books" Exhibition Area. "Making of the Ancient Books" Exhibition Area. Printing Ancient Poems Activity.
"Making of the Ancient Books" Exhibition Area. "Making of the Ancient Books" Exhibition Area. Printing Ancient Poems Activity.
   
Title: "Making the Ancient Books"
   
  Think about it! In the painting "Along the River During the Ch'ing-ming Festival", do you notice any similarities between the life of the present and the past? This area uses interactive puzzle pieces, bridge building blocks, and image completion techniques to bring the audience into the everyday life of the people in the painting. Through this experience, children can discover how people’s careers and bridges were different in ancient times.
 
"Entering the Painting 'Along the River During the Ch'ing-ming Festival' " Exhibition Area. Bridge Construction Area. Bridge Building Activity.
"Entering the Painting 'Along the River During the Ch'ing-ming Festival' " Exhibition Area. Bridge Construction Area. Bridge Building Activity.
   
Title: Grand Animal Garden
   
The theme of this area is animals, always a great favorite with children. Animal paintings in the National Palace Museum collection are transformed into animations, turning post puzzles or an actual three-dimensional scenes. Through such interactive tools as peek holes, mystery boxes, 3-D reconstruction and multimedia games, children will be able to walk into the ancient paintings and explore their fascinating contents.
   
  Unit One: Unlock the Secrets of the Paintings
 
Unlock the Secrets of the Paintings Unlock the Secrets of the Paintings Unlock the Secrets of the Paintings
 

In this area, various notable details of four of National Palace Museum's famous paintings: Magpies and Hare, Egrets on a Snowy Bank, Khubilai Khan Hunting and The "Three Friends" and a Hundred Birds, are designed as a set of riddles. Children will search for clues to unlocking the secrets of the paintings and personally experience the wonderful scenes in the ancient paintings, by using their sight, hearing and touch via such interactive displays as animations in peek holes, the mystery boxes and sound buttons.

   
  Unit Two: Take a Guess! Who Am I?
 
Take a Guess! Who Am I? Take a Guess! Who Am I? Take a Guess! Who Am I?
 

In this area, common animals such as the cat, fish, frog and bird are chosen as subjects of comparison between ancient paintings and modern-day photographs. Images of these animals have also been made into turning post puzzles, so that children can observe and sense how the ancients adopted different styles in depicting the animals. There is also a multimedia interactive game, where children can try out classification of meticulous and freehand painting styles.

   
  Unit Three: If I Were a Deer
 
If I Were a Deer If I Were a Deer If I Were a Deer
  In this area the renowned National Palace Museum painting, Herd of Deer in a Maple Grove, is turned from two-dimensional to a realistic three-dimensional scene. Children are encouraged to use their imagination to turn themselves into an animal in the painting, walk into the painting to become part of it, and to take photographs as souvenirs.
   
  Unit Four: Little Artist
 
Little Artist Little Artist Little Artist
 
  After viewing the many animal paintings in the display units, this area now encourages the children to consider and imagine the relationship between humankind and other animals from their own perspectives. They will also be able to use text or images to create their own animal painting under the suggested theme of "Your Ideal Zoo"; the completed painting can be displayed in rotation and also shared with others.  
   
   
Title: Artifacts Exploration Area
   
 

The themes of this area are curio boxes and porcelain in the National Palace Museum.  Artifacts that could not have been touched or held have now been made into models that can be taken apart and re-assembled, so as to meet the special requirements for learning by children.  From this hands-on process, children will be able to observe and learn about the special designs and interesting aspects in the shapes and decorations of these artifacts.

   
  Unit One: The Emperor's Toy Box
 
The Emperor's Toy Box The Emperor's Toy Box The Emperor's Toy Box
 

Two of the curio boxes in the National Palace Museum collection: "square treasure box containing 30 items in carved red sandalwood" and "round miniature curio-box with bamboo-strip veneer and twined Indian-lotus décor", have been made into models that can be operated by children. From the processes of dismantling and re-assembling the curio boxes, children will be able to appreciate the ingenuity and fun in the opening and closing of these small spaces, as well as the surprising storage areas. Short documentaries about curio boxes are also played in this area as reference for operating these artifacts.

   
  Unit Two: Ceramics Workshop
 
Ceramics Workshop Ceramics Workshop Ceramics Workshop
 

In this area three of the porcelain artifacts in the National Palace Museum collection, the "Bowl with incised peony design in yellowish-green glaze" by Yaozhou Kiln of Song Dynasty, "Celestial globe vase with decoration of dragon among lotus blossoms in underglaze blue" from Yongle reign of Ming Dynasty" and "Plate with flowers in yellow ground and falangcai polychrome enamels" from Yongzheng reign of Qing Dynasty, have been made into models for the children to try out. Children can restore the pieces of each porcelain artifact to their original shapes, and appreciate the various decorative characteristics of different types of porcelain ware.

   
   
 
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