"Youth Art Research Center" Cultivating Culture: A Thousand Students Explore the Cultural Journey of Tainan
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The "Walk Out of Campus, Culture to Go" event invites thousands of students to explore the historical culture of Tainan. Through field visits and AR augmented reality, the program deepens their understanding of local history. This initiative has collaborated with 43 schools, leading 1,600 students out of campus to discover the cultural heritage of Tainan. The event offers multiple routes, such as "Treasures of Tainan's Historical Architecture," which combines museums and historic sites to showcase the beauty of historical buildings; and "Taiwan Meets the World," which focuses on the Taiwan History Museum and Anping Fort, allowing students to gain rich historical knowledge during guided tours, enhancing their identification and confidence in Tainan's culture.
The "Walk Out of Campus, Culture to Go" event leads thousands of students to explore the historical culture of Tainan. The best way to understand historical culture is through on-site visits. The Cultural Affairs Bureau's "Walk Out of Campus, Culture to Go" event aims to guide students into the depths of historical and cultural fields, hoping to deepen their understanding of Tainan's history through on-site visits and AR augmented reality, while fostering a sense of identity and unique cultural confidence regarding Tainan's culture.
Currently, this project has collaborated with 43 schools in Tainan, leading 1,600 students to learn about the environment by stepping outside the campus. The Cultural Affairs Bureau offers students multiple route options. Among them, the "Treasure Trove of Tainan's Historical Architecture: Discovering the Cultural Treasures of the Museum City" route combines the development contexts of history and literature, linking the Tainan Municipal Museum, Chihkan Tower, and the Taiwan Literature Museum, guiding students to appreciate the beauty of architecture and historical sites from different periods.
The Tainan Municipal Museum showcases the historical footprints from the Dutch colonial period, the Ming Zheng period, and the Qing and Japanese colonial periods. The grand statue of Koxinga in the park tells the brave stories of battles against the Dutch East India Company; Chihkan Tower, formerly known as "Fort Provintia," was a military fortress for defense during the Dutch period and opened the curtain for Taiwan's age of exploration; stepping into the Taiwan Literature Museum, the most striking architectural appearance, once known as the "Tainan Prefectural Office" during the Japanese colonial period, is now an important base for Taiwanese literature.
The "Taiwan Meets the World" route combines the National Taiwan Museum, Anping Fort, and the Anping Tree House. Since the arrival of the Dutch 400 years ago, Taiwan officially made its debut on the world stage. Anping Fort, originally called "Fort Zeelandia," has undergone multiple eras of change since the Dutch colonial period, evolving from a military fortress into a tourist attraction today. Under the guidance of the tour instructors, students gradually explore Tainan's historical treasures; through the guided explanations, they resonate with the content of social studies textbooks while also gaining many interesting tidbits not covered in the classroom. The Anping Tree House, also built during the Dutch period, has formed the unique landscape of "a house in a tree" over time.
Throughout these journeys, students absorb Tainan's rich historical knowledge, stepping on every historical footprint with their own feet, as if the historical figures from their textbooks come to life before their eyes.