Nanmen Fairy Tales - The Sleeping Old King of Camphor
This exhibition provides a parent-child space for children to learn about the animal and plant ecology of the Nanmen Park through a variety of interactive methods, including picture book stories, interactive games, 3D art and sensory experiences. The exhibition mainly uses 3D art paintings to extend and create the spatial atmosphere of the camphor kingdom, and introduces the botanical ecology of camphor trees and the insects that depend on them for their survival and are full of the fragrance of camphor trees: the green banded phoebe, the camphor leaf wasp, and the green and yellow dead leaf moth. The story is about the relationship between people and the environment.
Tormented Era: Camphor Industry and Nanmen Factory Permanent Exhibition
In order to review the history of camphor industry in Taiwan and the transformation process from the only public camphor and opium processing plant in Taiwan and the largest in East Asia: Taipei Nanmen Factory to today's Nanmen Park of National Taiwan Museum, this exhibition is specially planned to show the following contents: what is camphor, the use of camphor, how camphor is produced, the first Taiwan camphor in the world, the dark history of fighting for camphor, a piece of camphor and a drop of blood and tears, what is opium, the magic of opium, opium monopoly and so on. There are also exhibits of various artifacts and models such as logging tools for brain production, scenes of brain dormitory in the mountainous area, a model of the fractional distillation tower system of Nanmen Factory, a model of Nanmen Factory and the camphor shrine, scenes of the "Rifan" War in the Yailiao, guns used by the indigenous people and the Japanese police, and other interactive exhibits such as the "Nanmen Factory Time Machine" and the aroma experience of camphor by-products.
