Completed in 1932 as the lecture hall (講堂) of Hsinchu Middle School to mark the school’s tenth anniversary, this building served as an assembly hall for decades before its conversion into a school history museum (校史館) in 1985. Most recently renovated for the school’s centennial in 2022, it now operates as History Museum National Hsinchu Senior High School (新竹高中校史館). The museum houses a hōanko (奉安庫), a metal safe once used to store imperial portraits and the Imperial Rescript on Education, one of few such artifacts on public display in Taiwan.
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Heritage Status
- City Monument (縣(市)定古蹟)
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Education History in Taiwan (臺灣教育史)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.