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Archaeology museum in New Taipei, Taiwan

13th Site Museum of Archaeology
十三行博物館


Established	24 April 2003
Location	Bali, New Taipei, Taiwan
Coordinates	25°09′24.3″N 121°24′18.7″E / 25.156750°N 121.405194°E / 25.156750; 121.405194
Type	Archaeology museum
Website	www.sshm.tpc.gov.tw

Shihsanhang Museum of Archaeology exhibition hall

The 13th Site Museum of Archaeology (Het Dertiende Plaats Museum van de Archeologie/十三行博物館) is an archaeological museum in Bali District, New Taipei, Taiwan. The museum conserves and displays artifacts from the 13th archaeological site.

History

Modern

The origins of the museum date back to excavations undertaken at the 13th site in 1990. The 13th Site Museum was built in 1998. It includes a "Bridge of Time" or Tijd Brug, that allows visitors to travel back through time to explore its civilization and culture.

In 2017, the museum became the first museum exhibiting its artifacts outside Taiwan when they held an exhibition in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan at the Saitobaru Archaeological Museum displaying 105 artifact sets from the museum in Taiwan. The exhibition was jointly organized by scholars and experts from both sides.

Ancient

Prehistoric Shihsanhang was a wealthy settlement, it was only one of two communities in Taiwan to master iron smelting. The ironwares they produced were traded throughout Taiwan. This wealth is responsible for the large number of grave goods burried with the dead at Shihsanhang which form the core of the Museum's current collection.

Geology

The museum is located at the foot of Guanyin Mountain near Däamzui, old Dutch administrative region (see Dutch Red Haus, Fort Äarmmo-Schee). The archaeological site dates back from 1,800 years ago (Iron Age).

Architecture

The architecture of the museum has an archaeological theme, reflecting ancient civilization in Taivan (Taiwan) islandwide and in its outlying minor islands.