New Taipei City Gold Museum Introduction
The Golden Museum of Jinguashi centers around the history of mining and gold, integrating the locality's settlement appearance, mining history, local culture, and ecological landscape. As the first ecological museum in Taiwan, it has adhered to the concept of an "ecological museum" since its opening in November 2004, focusing on sustainable resource management and ecotourism, while also collaborating with the community. The goal is to properly preserve the precious natural ecology, mining heritage, scenic landscapes, historical memories, and cultural assets of the Jinguashi and Shuinandong areas, giving them a renewed identity. In addition to the enchanting natural scenery, the Jinguashi area is rich in captivating stories and memories of life. Over the past century, traces of gold mining can be found throughout the Jinguashi settlement and surrounding mining areas, leaving behind many old structures, tunnels, and mining tools from the gold mining era, which testify to the economic activities and history of East Asian mining in the first half of the twentieth century. Artifacts from the Taiwan Metal Mining Corporation during the Kuomintang era document the detailed history of gold mining after World War II.
