Houshan Highway Museum Introduction
Established in 2011, the museum was set up by the Fourth District Maintenance Engineering Office of the Directorate General of Highways to document and preserve the construction history of the Houshan Highway. The exhibition focuses on roads, bridges, and tunnels, showcasing photographs, artifacts, and models that testify to the hard struggles of building and repairing the Houshan Highway since 1949. It pays tribute to the hard work and spirit of perseverance of past pioneers while demonstrating the essence of highway culture. The Fourth District Maintenance Engineering Office of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications was established on October 1, 1949, and has undergone more than sixty years of challenges, creating miraculous roads in Yilan and Hualien counties on rugged highways, with a rich history full of sweet and bitter memories. Looking back on the journey, highway pioneers devoted their wisdom and sweat, shouldering the historical responsibility and sacred mission of continuing the legacy. Their spirit of wisdom and determination serves as a model for us to learn from. To document and preserve the growth of the Houshan Highway and to remember the contributions of predecessors who carved paths with simple tools and hard labor to accomplish their tasks, this invaluable asset of outstanding roadway construction is to be highlighted, showing the essence of highway culture and promoting the hardworking spirit of "highway people." This serves to pass on experience as a model and core benchmark for new colleagues. Therefore, related old artifacts were collected to establish the Houshan Highway Museum for organization and preservation.
