Chinese Furniture Museum, Furniture museum in Taoyuan District, Taiwan.
The Chinese Furniture Museum is located underground within a cultural building and features two exhibition spaces with traditional pieces and recreated domestic settings. The galleries are organized to show how different furniture styles and construction methods developed over time in Chinese woodworking traditions.
The museum was established in the 1990s to respond to earlier proposals for documenting and preserving Chinese furniture traditions. The collection was built gradually and organized to trace how woodworking techniques evolved through different periods of Chinese history.
The museum displays Chinese furniture in the context of how it was actually used in homes, with recreated living spaces that show daily life patterns. Visitors see pieces arranged as they would have been in real rooms, revealing how design choices reflected the rhythms and values of the people who lived with them.
The entrance is accessed via the basement level of the cultural building, so visitors should be prepared for stairs or elevator access. The lighting in the exhibition areas is designed to clearly show the details of the wood carving and decorative work on each piece.
The museum maintains extensive technical documentation and specialized reference materials about construction techniques and design principles specific to Chinese furniture craftsmanship. This collection of source documents serves as a research archive that reveals how makers solved practical problems through their joinery and structural innovations.
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