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When we arrived at the museum, we happened to see that they were holding a special exhibition, the theme of which was the combination of the starry sky and bubbles. The work was produced by Tr. Hideki Tanaka.

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After entering the exhibition hall, we marked the beginning with a video about Tr. Hideki Tanaka!

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This is the first glass work you will see when you enter the exhibition hall. This work is inspired by fish swimming in water, and adds elements such as the Milky Way and bubbles.

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This is our favorite glass work. The flowing glass liquid inside and the transparent shell outside are very eye-catching.

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This work is so huge that it is as wide as an arm! This makes me wonder, how can this work be so large?

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We were asking teachers some detailed questions about the special exhibition.

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These two pieces form a set representing autumn and spring respectively. Notice the wires behind the glass work? This work has light bulbs installed inside, which makes it sparkle and very charming.

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This work is the main piece of the current exhibition at this museum. It is divided into two parts: the upper cylindrical section and the lower pyramidal section. The upper part represents Taiwan’s second-highest mountain, Xueshan, while the lower part symbolizes Taiwan’s national flower—the plum blossom.

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In 1922, the Japanese well-known 'Dong-Ming Bottle Factory' set up a plant in Jingmei, Taipei, that exclusively produced brown glass liquor bottles in collaboration with the Monopoly Bureau of the Taiwan Governor's Office, which accordingly commenced the professional glass production in Taiwan.

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In 1925,Qi-Ming Liao, one of the locals in Hsinchu, established the first Hsinchu glass factory, "He-Cheng glass factory", on Dong-Nan Street. The factory employed the hand-blown technique to make a variety of glass products, ranging from the household items such as candle lids, kerosene lamps, fly-catching lamps, medicine bottles, fishing float balls and marble sodas, to the professional devices including test tubes for medicine usage, traffic lights, etc.

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In 1929, the "Zhi-Shan Glass Manufacture" was founded in Hsinchu, primarily producing thermometers and densitometers.

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In 1939, the Japanese Government established the "Taiwan Grand Glass Association" (today known as the Union Chemical Laboratories of the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan) in Chi-Tu-Qi, Hsinchu, they employed furnaces to engage in the production of specific apparatuses for physics and chemistry experiments, medical appliances, measuring equipment and so on.

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In 1944, the "Taiwan Glass Association Hsinchu Factory" was established, which specialized in making various types of wine bottles. In addition, the "Chin-Gao Glass Bottle Corporation" Japanese company was also dedicated to manufacturing assorted glass bottles. With a large number of glass factories located in Hsinchu, Hsinchu became an important city for Taiwan's glass industry. However, the industry at that time focused on manufacturing glass household items for domestic and international trade, as well as industrial and medical appliances, etc., which resulted in a labor-intensive production mode.

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In 1946, the Taiwan Provincial Government took over 10 glass enterprise that was owned by the Japanese and consolidated them into seven glass manufacturers, which formed the "Taiwan Glass Industry Corporation" . In 1949, the “Taiwan Glass Industry Corporation" was subordinated to the "Taiwan Tobacco and Wine Monopoly Bureau" and was renamed as "Tobacco and Wine Monopoly Bureau Bottling Factory", which became the only public-operated glass factory in Taiwan.

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The private company, "Yun-Chang Glass Manufacture", established the first fully automatic manufacturing production in 1955.

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In 1954, the "Hsinchu Glass Manufacture Co., Ltd." was established, the company began to mass produce flat glass for domestic demands. In 1960, it founded a glass craft department to develop diverse glass products, including Chinese painting vases, glass screens that imitated Chinese paintings, and assorted glass decorative animals and fruits, etc., thereby inaugurating a precedent for the export market of Taiwan's glass. craftworks. Since then, Hsinchu was occupied with glass factories, which enthusiastically devoted themselves to glass craft production. Accordingly, it opened a door for the Taiwanese glass craft.

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In 1970, the "Central Fiberglass collaborated with the "Japan Fiberglass Association in producing insulation blankets at Zhu-Dong. In the same year, Phillips (from Japan) invested in Taiwan for the production of TV iconoscope; meanwhile, a Taiwan's company “Picvue electronics" erected producing glass tubes for iconoscopes, thereby enabled the development of Taiwan's electronic glass industry.

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"Da-Lai Fiber Glass Company" began to manufacture long fiberglass in 1973. The first oil crisis broke out in the same year and had a global economic effect. In the meantime, the Hsinchu glass industry underwent the impact of the global 1970s energy crisis. Until 1986, due to the influences of factories relocating to China and Southeast Asia, brain drain, huge appreciation of New Taiwan Dollar, as well as the establishment of the Hsinchu Science Park, the glass craft industry in Hsinchu has greatly declined.

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In 1980,"Ya-Mei-Nai Glass Company" was established, and for the first time introduced the electronic glass furnace to produce heat-resistant glassware.

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The "Taiwan Glass Company" contributed to the development of flat glass production by introducing the "British float process", to create polished glass in 1981.

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The video is made by the ITRI