The Miaoli Pottery Museum or Miaoli Ceramics Museum () is a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

pottery Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and por ...

in Gongguan Township,

Miaoli County Miaoli County (Mandarin Pinyin: ''miáo lì xiàn''; Hakka PFS: ''Mèu-li̍t-yen''; Hokkien POJ: ''Biâu-le̍k-koān'' or ''Miâu-le̍k-koān'') is a county in western Taiwan. Miaoli is adjacent with Hsinchu County and Hsinchu City to the nort ...

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History

The construction of the museum was completed by the end of 2005.

Architecture

The museum is housed in a 2-story building and spreads across a 2 hectares of area. It is located inside the Miaoli Travel Panorama Center, which also consists of a tourist information center, a restaurant and a gift shop. The museum includes the following themes, which are Home of Ceramics: Miaoli, Life of the Old Masterm Ceramics in Miaoli, Urn and Decorative Ceramics, Kilns in Miaoli, Traditional Ceramic Techniques and Modern Wood Burning.

Exhibitions

The museum exhibits various relics of pottery and art works that represents the history and culture of Miaoli County. It also features special pottery exhibitions.

Transportation

The museum is accessible east from Tongluo Station of the Taiwan Railways.

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