2021 Sinica Open House Activity

Quiz of the week for the Museum of the Institute of Ethnology! Visit MIOE's facebook page and find the Quiz of the Week post. Answer questions from MIOE’s three online exhibitions on the Open Museum platform for a chance to win a limited MIOE Anthropologist’s Notebook. 

The coptic stitch notebook includes dotted and blank pages, with descriptions and images of highlights from MIOE’s special exhibitions. 

The quiz will be published on 10/30 14:00; answers and the winners will be announced on 10/31 15:00. 

What You May Not Know About the Hakka: The Encounter of Hakka People and Christianity
There are tens of millions of Hakka people worldwide.  Hakka customs therefore vary widely, the forms of spoken Hakka are not necessarily mutually intelligible, and their religious beliefs also differ.  This exhibition tells the story of the Hakka people’s encounter with Christianity, and offers an introduction to Hakka Christians.

The Anthropologists’ Money Bag: The Social Life of Money
Anthropologists travel around the world to conduct fieldwork and understand culture through intimately experiencing the local way of living. This includes familiarizing with the various uses of money, and what consists of money. This exhibition explores money from around the world and provides an insight into our social life.  

Pandemic Cultures: An Exploration → CLICK HERE
Taiwan’s 2020 Word of the Year was ‘Pandemic’. The pandemic has disrupted our lives, emotions and behavior patterns, and it has also caused us to reassess our values. Let’s explore together our ‘pandemic cultures’.