【Pictures：Dancer of the indigenous people／Words：Cherry, Jenny】

The museum was originally based on the donation by its founder and chairman Safe C.F. Lin of his personal collection of Taiwanese Aboriginal artifacts acquired over many years in keeping with his desire to put something back into the community in 1985. Based on the donation by its founder and chairman Safe C.F. Lin, we started our field studies and research work. There are almost two thousand pieces of Aboriginal works displayed in Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines from Safe C.F. Lin and other enthusiastic persons.

In order to promote more research of indigenous peoples in Taiwan, our museum has sponsored some researches like: Integration plan of Ethnology specimens with department of Ethnology, National Taiwan University in 1991 to reinforce the antiquarian artifacts. There was also a contract signing ceremony with National Taiwan Univ., Chengchi Univ., and Tsinghua Univ. for the “Formosan Aborigine Graduate Student Scholarship Project” in 1993 to develop excellent ethnologist of indigenous culture. Besides this, we sponsored Berkeley and University of Leiden “ Retrospect and prospect of Formosan Aborigines Research Confernce” to integrate the data and result from early research of early indigenous culture and to provide both local and foreign people to cousult.

It has been 15 years since the museum was grand open in June, 1994. Besides promoting the gathering the Taiwanese Aboriginal artifacts and research, it also provides various educational activities to promote Taiwanese Aboriginal culture. The museum also has a special exhibition room where related exhibitions are held at regular intervals to broaden visitor’s field of concern, and to present the many faces of humankind’s culture.

The museum also has a special exhibition annually which related is combined with “Combined with the tribe” exhibition and is co-planed its content to emphasized unique feature of tribes. And it becomes a way for those multi-culture people to speak out and discuss. (resource : The Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines)