臺灣文學虛擬博物館

A Boundless Collection of Prized Literary Works
NMTL, where Literature Collection Knows No Bounds

Over 120,000 invaluable artifacts – ranging from manuscripts, calligraphy pieces and paintings, to wares and utensils – are housed in the National Museum of Taiwan Literature. The Museum also has professional restoration instruments, equipment and a staff of trained restorers. Over the last 20 years, NMTL has stayed true to its pledge to protect the brainchildren of noted writers, and worked tirelessly to preserve and restore the artifacts, while overseeing literal studies and other preliminary museological projects.

Many of the artifacts housed in the museum come from different venues and most of them are showing signs of age and insect infestation. Curators, preservers and restorers comb over each item to provide thoughtful diagnosis, which is then combined with scientific examination, analytics, and tech know-how to effectively address and identify artifact preservation and restoration challenges. Meanwhile, custom-designed restoration solutions are put forth for artifacts of various materials and categories with precision methods and materials, so as to extend their shelf life for sustainable exhibition purposes and research applications.

⭔ Literature：Edifying the Journey of Life
In this animation, the director anthropomorphises the artifacts, and the "I" in the animation represents more than 110,000 artifacts from more than 500 donors, presenting the process of collecting artifacts, archiving and maintaining the collection, researching them, and displaying them in exhibitions and promotions. The animation conveys the emotions between the National Museum of Taiwan Literature, the donors and the artefacts. (Kept in National Museum of Taiwan Literature)

This exhibition is a collaborative celebration of tech-based restoration efforts, digitized cultural heritage preservation programs and literary translation endeavors, encapsulating the journey that NMTL has taken over the past 20 years in curating and collecting artifacts; the exhibition vividly demonstrates the historic and cultural imprints in the textured surface left by the artifacts. It also chronicles the journey the artifacts have taken in different authors' memory dimension to transcend time and space, making their way to the enchanted gaze of modern viewers to tell their stories – heartfelt and profound.

The venue consists of four exhibition areas to showcase the restoration and reproduction of cultural artifacts, and literary mindfulness: "The Rhythm of Cultural Artifacts/The Journey of Curation and Collection," "Reimagining of Cultural Artifacts/Eternity Assured," "Digitization on Cloud, 3D Cultural Artifacts," "Literary Translation, Masquerade of Cultural Relics."