This is not a museum guide

Eight museum enthusiasts, eight ways to interpret museums!

Everything displayed in museums is always so orderly and well-organized, but if you peel back their "surface," you'll find curators' considerations, hidden taboos, underlying ideologies... Hong Kong has never lacked travel guides, but there doesn't seem to be a "guide" to visiting museums that delves into their "substance." This book attempts to fill that void by sharing the "museum-visiting philosophies" of eight museum fanatics.

With eight museum enthusiasts, there are eight ways to interpret museums. Some enjoy experiencing the unpredictability of history through museums, others delight in appreciating a museum's ability to rewrite and embellish, some read the traces of human progress from exhibit labels, and still others simply adore the richness of museums... "This is Not a Bling Bling Museum Guidebook" will lead readers through museums and historical sites in London, Oxford, Berlin, Amsterdam, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Kyoto, Hong Kong, and other places, exploring the "depths" of museums. This is a non-travel guide perfect for putting in your suitcase and slowly savoring during your travels.

*Museums mentioned in the book:

London: Churchill War Rooms / National Maritime Museum / Wellcome Collection

Oxford: Ashmolean Museum

Woodstock: Blenheim Palace

Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum

Dachau: Concentration Camp Memorial Site

Berlin: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe / Jewish Museum / New Synagogue

Taipei: Cheng Nan-jung Memorial Museum / Jing-Mei Human Rights Memorial and Cultural Park / Museum of Indigenous Peoples / National Palace Museum, Taipei

Chiayi: Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum

Nantou: Yu Sheng Memorial Museum

Kaohsiung: Walled City Museum

Kyoto: Kawai Kanjiro's House / Sagawa Art Museum

Nara: Nara National Museum

Hong Kong: Tsz Shan Monastery Museum / Museum of Coastal Defence