Travel Taipei

First the museum is located in a beautifully designed building and located in a very nice part of Taipei. The building is enormous and can hold many exhibitions simultaneously. When I announced to the ticket seller that I am a senior (as if she couldn’t tell just by looking at me), I was told that there was no need to buy a ticket. In addition to the exhibitions which periodically change (so there is really no reason to specify them in this review) the museum has a store with an extremely impressive assortment of art books for sale. It should be noted that other than a few exceptions, they are all written in Chinese (Mandarin, I assume). The museum also has a very pleasant cafeteria.

I thought the name Museum of Fine Arts to be kind of one for this place. Don't get me wrong, this is a great museum, and its art is imaginative, creative, and even intellectual. I'm sure the artists have, maybe had, great skills and natural abilities. I don't know - when I hear the term fine arts, I think of something more classical maybe even Renaissance type art. Maybe the words I'm looking for is more traditional. The smart, sweet, and helpful receptionists at my great hotel #findershotel told me that MoCA here in Taipei was more traditional than the Museum of Fine Arts. If I was looking for something edgy and off the wall, that I should come here, and I'm glad I did. The second floor displayed the works of three East Asian female abstract artists which are certainly bright colored and large multi-panel works. l got trouble though appreciating abstract paintings and artists such as Pollock and these artists; it's hard to believe that there is a lot of thought going into these works. Interestingly, there were some groups of school kids here. They were small ones probably no older than 6 or 7. Museum staff were trying to explain some of the individual works to them. As I don't speak Mandarin, I couldn't imagine what they were saying to kids this young about these paintings. The kids seemed to be mesmerized by the colors I think for a few moments here and there. At other times, they seemed like they just wanted to get up and run around. For me, more thought provoking exhibits were located on the third floor. One was by an artist named Ban Yuan Chang. He lots of multimedia pieces that center on mechanical forms of the human body somewhat dismembered. Another room on the second floor had to do with porcelain canines. I learned the Nazis had a porcelain factory in one of the concentration camps. I think I went back to the first floor, and there with this trippy mathematical video/light exhibit. I would have liked to have stayed there longer for some reason. On the bottom floor there are a couple more exhibits. The final one I saw were these surreal paintings done by a very imaginative sole artist. The museum is near an expo park of somekind. You got to walk through it to get to get to from Yuanshan MRT. It seems like there are quite a few things to explore and do around this area. I wish I had the time.

池田亮司の個展期間中で、若いカップルも多く賑やかな印象です 他の個展も同時に多く開催されているので、様々なタイプに接する事が出来ました 台北駅から市バスで10分程度と近く、交通の便は良いと思います

台北市立美術館是很棒的展覽空間，甫進入大廳一陣涼意。冷氣空調溫度很冷，需要添加外套。閱覽視聽室，設備很完善，唯一美中不足是附近要找吃東西的地方不多，也可以去隔壁的台北故事館参觀，結束豐富美麗的饗宴。

MRT圓山駅からは徒歩10分弱です。 白い建物。 現代アートが展示されています。 写真撮影はOKです。 絵や彫刻、映像など、色々あって楽しいです。