Reasons of construction

　　The founder Mr. Lin Chin Hui had a dream of building a museum to preserve and advance Tai Chiang culture. And he invited many artists of Beimen Dist in Salty Zone to sketch their hometown and published 《Painting Sets in Beimen Dist》. Henceforth, he regularly got in touch with the group of people, who grew up in Beimen Dist, traveling or residing far away from home . And he experienced their the enthusiasm and passion for their hometown, Beimen Dist in Salty Zone. In turn,he founded the The His-chia Foundation For Cultural Acquisition in 1997 ,which was changed into The Ou-wang People Foundation For Cultural Acquisition in 2003,to promote the Beimen Dist culture. With a great deal of effort, he accumulated abundant experiences and variety kinds of local culture antique. Consequently, all of these inspired him to be more ambitious and active. Finally, Shiang-Yu Museum was founded in 2002. It attends to collect, arrange, research, display and publish all kinds of local culture antique and set up many interesting courses.

The urgent reason

( 1 )  Since there was no enough space to store a large amount of local collections including artworks, literature works, old maps, tablets, old pictures, building another place to store them was a front burner.

( 2 ) Salty Zone lacked a place to collect local antiques and promote local culture. He fully realized that founding a museum himself is the only way to boost local affairs.

Three of the museum program planners. From left to right are the museum manager,Nobel winner, professor Li Yuan-Che and the venerated old people, Lin Pi-Shan.