Most people's thoughts about the steel and metal industry are "cold" and "boring", but Lanyu Cultural Industry and Tourism Integrated Services Department found that the Taiwan Metal Creative Museum has greatly subverted your stereotypes. Zhigang Metal was co-founded in 1995 by six like-minded friends. Its main business is sheet metal processing. As the performance gradually grew steadily and the factory continued to expand, Zhigang Metal decided to turn the factory into a tourist attraction in the spirit of feedback, breakthrough and innovation, and established the Taiwan Metal Creative Museum in 2010.
Here, you can not only see an introduction to the historical development and technological evolution of metal crafts, but also display areas for welding processes, robot automatic welding, etc., and many stiff and cold metals have become unexpected works of art. Before you even step into the museum, you can see traces of metal art - oxen, cows, black-faced spoonbills, etc., all welcoming you on the grass.
The works after entering the museum are even more dizzying. The domineering Transformers, slender and light butterflies, blooming roses, etc. are all made using metal technology such as dotting, extension, welding, and welding, and even integrated into composites. The use of media in the work makes metal no longer cold. One of them, "Mona Lisa's Smile", uses the principle of machine punching and dense holes to express the essence of world-famous paintings through shadow expression. Among them, the "Zhigang Concentric Tree" standing in the cultural exhibition hall is Zhigang Metal's self-expectation. Its design concept is derived from the strong vitality of the Taiwanese eggplant tree and symbolizes "the top and bottom are united, perseverance, deep roots and luxuriant leaves." the concept of.
Various experiential activities The Metal Creative Museum has designed a series of different activities to invite visitors to participate, teaching you how to DIY various small daily objects: mobile phone holders, pen holders, music boxes and robots. During the summer vacation, the "Sword Lion King Kong Training Camp" is held, which is very suitable Families and children can participate together!
The museum is divided into five areas:
metal gate art entrance, cute animal landscape garden, on-site production area, cultural exhibition hall, and education experience hall. During each visit period, a tour guide will explain the tour, introduce the story of the company, the origin of the creative museum, as well as the introduction of the park, the production of products and the stories behind them.
The bus stop next to the gate is very special. There are two big steel men "Wood Metal Steel" and "Water Metal Steel" standing there, like guardians on the left and right, guarding the passengers waiting for the bus!
As soon as you enter the museum area, you will find the cute animal landscape garden.
The gold steel in front of the garden looks so gentle because of its color!
The garden is so lively, like a small zoo~The animals made of various steel materials are so cool!
There are several Transformers in the exhibition area. Those who like this kind of toys and dolls or have children who like them can really arrange to visit here!
The steel figures and products in the museum area also incorporate elements from the ancient capital of Tainan, showing the local characteristics of Tainan. The representative work is the sword lion gold steel from the Metal Creative Museum.
1On-site process area
In the past, the stereotype was that steel factories were full of rust and dirty. It’s chaotic, but when I came here I realized that with the advancement of technology, this industry has also become computerized! Many use computer machines to replace human labor, so the process area is quite clean!
In the process area, you can learn about the progress of this industry and the manufacturing process of products~use modern machines to make a variety of eye-opening products!
2 Cultural Exhibition Hall
You can see some steel artworks in this area. I believe everyone is familiar with the masterpiece below!
Zhigang Concentric Tree has six main trunks, symbolizing the like-minded ideas of the six partners ~ it should be the spiritual pillar of the enterprise!
3 Educational Experience Center
There are many steel cultural and creative products and works of art here, and you can also DIY handicrafts!
It is nothing new for steel plants to engage in industrial tourism, but how to make the tourism of steel plants viable and popular is indeed a difficult problem. Lanyu Cultural Industry Tourism Integrated Service Department has had contact with many domestic steel plants. Their industrial tourism is more about green factories, which makes it difficult for people to feel the charm and fun of steel. This creative factory in Taiwan has undoubtedly pointed the way for many steel plants, which is in line with the trend of innovation. We believe that a steel plant cannot be just a green factory, nor should it only focus on sorting out and popularizing corporate culture and industry knowledge, nor should it be a simple tour of process routes, but should connect these together through the development of IP and creative story themes, and Create various derivatives through steel and life, thereby deepening people's feeling and experience of the steel plant, so that people not only have something to see, but also something to buy, and have fun buying it.
