Did You Know That … ?
- The museum is built around a Grade II historic site known as the Shihsanhang Prehistoric Site (十三行遺址). The site contains evidence that the Iron Age residents were the earliest group of people to have possessed iron-smelting technology in Taiwan.
- More than eighty percent of the relics remain buried at the site, as construction of a sewage treatment plant took priority in the 1990s. The museum was established in 1992 to preserve the items salvaged before construction took place.
- The museum currently houses human bones, animal remains, glass beads, pottery utensils, and coins unearthed from the prehistoric site.
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