Treasures around the Corner

On the occasion of the National Museum of History’s sixtieth birthday, the museum’s staff, in order to express to the museum the deepest of blessings, have especially prepared this publication, Treasures around the Corner: NMH Collection 60, selecting from the museum’s collection artifacts that are not heavy with abstruse meaning, but are their favorites, those which inspire most feeling, are rich in historical interest or tell the best stories. The authors have written in a prose form distinct from that of the academic article to present history through the origins of an item’s accession to the museum’s collection and to do so using the perspectives of themselves and others, conveying to the reader a warm and painstaking sense of history, consolidating the intimate relationship between artifacts and people.
在史博館60歲生日之際，館員們為向這座博物館表達最深的祝福，特別規劃了《大寶庫的小角落》一書，從館藏中選擇自己最喜愛、最有感覺、富有歷史趣味、故事張力強、非厚重意涵的物件。作者們以有別於學術論文的散文形式進行書寫，藉由它們入藏的由來，以自觀和他觀的手法浮現歷史，向讀者傳達溫暖與細緻的歷史之感，勾連文物與人們之間的親密關係。