National Palace Museum Director Hsiao Tsung-huang and head of the Ulaanbaatar-based Bogd Khaan Palace Museum Erdenebaatar Tseveg-Ochir renewed a cooperative museum arrangement Nov. 27, to continue deepened exchange on collections, exhibitions and research.
NPM Deputy Directors Huang Yong-tai and Yu Pei-chin, and Ulaanbaatar Trade and Economic Representative Office in Taipei Representative Tumurbaatar Gankhuyag witnessed the signatures.
In his remarks, NPM Director Hsiao Tsung-huang said that Taiwan’s collaboration with Mongolia started Nov. 2012, when NPM donated 24 Genghis Khan replica portraits to the National Museum of Mongolia to support government celebrations of the historic figure’s 850th anniversary. Later in 2015, a book, "Compilation of Mongolian Cultural Relics in the National Palace Museum" was published, followed in 2016 by a memorandum of cooperation with the Institute of Archeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences to publish a sequel to the tome.
In 2018, former Director of the National Palace Museum Lin Jeng-yi led a delegation to Mongolia and established the relationship with BKPM, negotiating for the loan of artifacts for the 2020 "Hubilhan - Qing Dynasty Living Buddha Cultural Relics Exhibition." Subsequently, in 2020, the "NPM Asian Art Festival: Mongolian Month" was held in the South Campus of the Palace Museum.
On the basis of the fruitful cooperation over the past decade, the two bodies will cooperate in publishing research, cultural creative marketing, and restoration work, as well as discuss the feasibility of co-curating exhibitions.
As well as BKPM, NPM has already established sister museum ties with five other museums around the world, and this latest agreement will open a new chapter in cultural exchanges between the two countries. (POC-E)
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