Blocked by Beijing from maintaining diplomatic ties with most of the world and barred from many global organisations, Taiwan is turning to museum diplomacy to boost its international standing and highlight its history as a regional entrepôt rather than a province of China.
More than a decade after it was first approved, the $300m southern branch of Taipei’s National Palace Museum opened in the city of Chiayi in December in an elegantly modernist building designed to showcase pan-Asian art and culture.
It features permanent exhibitions on the shared regional heritage of tea, Buddhist art and textiles and special expositions on Islamic jade and Korean and Japanese pottery.
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