( Observer Network ) According to Taiwan media China Times News Network on March 14, the war in Russia and Ukraine spread, affecting cultural relics collections in museums in Ukraine. Some Taiwanese politicians took advantage of the situation and asked the Taipei Forbidden City to conduct war drills and formulate plans for evacuation and packaging of cultural relics. Taipei Palace Museum Dean Wu Micha responded that he would formulate a plan for packaging and evacuation of cultural relics within 3 months.
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Since Russia launched a military operation against Ukraine, the Ukrainian National Lviv Museum has been in seclusion for several consecutive days. In order to protect the cultural heritage in the museum from the impact of war, museum staff packaged the precious cultural relics and transferred them to secret places for preservation. The collections of statues and other uncarried away are also wrapped to avoid being damaged by shrapnel.
Ukraine's Lviv Museum staff transfer collections Photo source: US media
Related topics attracted the attention of politicians on the island. On the morning of the 14th, several "legislators" from Taiwan's legislative body questioned Wu Micha, the president of the Palace Museum in Taipei, asking him to formulate a plan to package and evacuate cultural relics to deal with the war.
Wang Wanyu, the representative of the "Taiwan independence" party, asked Wu Micha, whether the Taipei Forbidden City had conducted war drills? What is the relevant evacuation and packaging mechanism?
Wu Micha responded that the Taipei Palace Museum has never had a war evacuation drill so far, and it cannot be said that it is not necessary, but the evacuation drill of the entire cultural relics is a big project. The matter is very important, so he dare not say that he can do drills often.
Wang Wanyu continued to ask, if he really did a war evacuation drill, how often should he do it?
Wu Micha replied that it is a big project to pack more than 690,000 cultural relics, and actual drills will be very difficult, but he will formulate relevant measures and plans. "We will make a written plan first, rather than a practical drill, because that is a big project."
Wu Micha Photo source: Taiwan media
Korean Party "legislator" Wan Meiling asked, does Wu Micha have a safe place for cultural relics to be placed, and is there enough professional talents to assist in the evacuation?
Wu Micha replied that he knew there was a safe place, but he was not sure whether it was in line with the needs of preserving cultural relics. "So I don't have a place suitable for placing it in my mind at the moment. There are very safe places, but it does not meet the conditions for (preserving) the Forbidden City cultural relics design, and I don't know it."
Democratic Progressive Party "legislator" Wu Siyao asked the Taipei Palace Museum to express his anti-Russia, support Ukraine, and refused to communicate with Russian Museum , and formulated a plan to provide post-war assistance to Ukraine.
Wu Micha promised at the meeting that he would propose solutions to the war within 3 months. The Taipei Forbidden City will negotiate with relevant units to formulate a detailed plan. It is expected that appropriate deductions can be carried out in July, but the cultural relics will not be actually packaged and moved.
Wu Micha said that if the war occurs, there will be a preview period, and the cultural relics of the Forbidden City in Taipei will be evacuated in batches, and at the same time, we will contact relevant units to give the evacuation of cultural relics a place.
Taipei Palace Museum Data photo
Public information shows that the Taipei Palace Museum is one of the three major museums in China. It opened in 1965 and has undergone many expansions and renovations. The collections in the museum are mainly from the essence of many royal collections such as the "Nanjing National Central Museum", the "National Peking Palace Museum" and the " National Peking Library ", etc., including the essence of the royal collections such as Forbidden City, Shenyang Palace , the Summer Palace, Summer Palace and Imperial College . In addition, there are fine cultural relics donated by people from all walks of life at home and abroad.
As of April 30, 2021, the Palace Museum in Taipei has a total of 698,854 booked cultural relics, including jade cabbage , Mao Gongding , Sanshipan , Kuaixue Shiqing Tie, "Early Spring Picture", "Huazigang Picture", " Yongle Classic HTML ", " Siku Quanshu " and other rare treasures.
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