Alishan Museum - China Travel

introduce

Alishan Museum is a wooden red building located in the Alishan Forest Recreation Area. The museum houses the equipment, living utensils, and alpine animal and plant specimens used in the early reclamation of Alishan. If you want to learn more about Alishan, don’t miss it, and you can also take a rest here.

Reclamation tools

The museum collects the equipment used in the early reclamation of Alishan, such as the skidder model in the early development stage, the planning model of the Alishan Forest Recreation Area, the early cross-cut saws produced by the United States, Britain, and Japan, etc.

folklore

There is also a miniature "Wu Feng Temple" in the museum, and many exquisite models of houses, assembly halls, warehouses, etc. are built next to it, and many daily necessities are displayed, such as bows, guns, pipes, spring rice wooden pestles, and harmonicas …wait, there are even old telephones from the olden days.

Herbarium

The museum also exhibits specimens and ecological backgrounds of alpine animals such as wild goats, wild boars, sambars, clouded leopards, and lynx in Taiwan, as well as infusion specimens of various birds, snakes, and amphibians. Other specimens such as butterflies, insects, alpine rats, bat spokes, and wax leaf specimens of various alpine plants in Alishan are also abundant. In addition, there are also complete specimens, models, and diagrams of Alishan's geology, soil, and tree species. For example, there are five main tree species in Alishan: hemlock, red cypress, Taiwan cypress, Taiwan Xiaonan, Luan Dashan, You can see them all here, and the soil types along the Alishan Railway, the rocks and fossils unearthed in Alishan, such as sea urchins, bivalve shells, etc., are also readily available.