New Taipei City Gold Museum Introduction
The Gold Museum in Jinguashi focuses on the history of mining and gold, integrating the local settlement features, mining history, local culture, and ecological landscape of the Jinguashi area. As the first museum in Taiwan designed with the concept of an ecological museum, it has adhered to the principles of sustainable resource management and ecotourism since its opening in November 2004. The museum collaborates with community efforts to preserve the unique natural ecology, mining relics, scenic landscapes, historical memories, and cultural assets of the Jinguashi and Shuiyan Cave areas, giving them a new look. Besides the captivating natural scenery, the Jinguashi area is filled with touching stories and life memories. Over the past century, traces of gold mining have spread throughout the Jinguashi settlement and surrounding mining areas, leaving many old buildings, tunnels, and mining tools from the gold mining era, which bear witness to the economic activities and history of East Asian mining in the first half of the twentieth century. Artifacts from the Taiwan Metal Mining Company during the period of the National Government document the details of gold mining after World War II.
