Located inside Taipei's Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, the Taiwan
Design Museum (open: 09.30-17.30 Tue-Sun; admission NTD50/30; Chinese-only official website here; photo gallery here) contains a small but thorough selection of local and overseas items, mainly
appliances and furniture items. Taiwanese are acutely aware they have
a reputation for copying rather than innovating, so it's especially interesting that one of the museum's audio-visual
presentations, describing the first locally-made rice steamer
to reach the market, delicately notes it was created in the early 1960s ‘with
reference’ to Japanese designs.
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