Photos of Alishan Museum

The Alishan Museum is a wooden red building located in the Alishan Forest Recreation Area. The museum collects the instruments, daily utensils, and alpine animal and plant specimens used in the early reclamation of Alishan. If you want to know more about Alishan, you should not miss this place, or you can take a break here. The Reclamation Equipment Museum collects the equipment and tools used in the early reclamation of Alishan, such as the skidder model in the early stage of development, the planning model of Alishan Forest Recreation Area, the cross-cut saws produced in the early days of the United States, Britain and Japan...etc. . There is also a miniature "Wufeng Temple" in the Folklore Museum. Many exquisite models of houses, assembly halls, warehouses, etc. are built next to it, and many daily utensils are displayed, such as bows, guns, pipes, spring rice wooden pestles, Harmonica... wait, there are even old-fashioned telephones in sight. The Herbarium also displays the stripped specimens and ecological backgrounds of Taiwan's wild goat, wild boar, sambar, clouded leopard, lynx and other alpine animals, as well as infusion specimens of various birds, snakes, and amphibians. Other specimens such as butterflies, insects and alpine rodents, bats, and wax leaf specimens of various alpine plants in Alishan are also abundant. In addition, Alishan's geological, soil, tree species and other specimens, models and charts are also very complete, such as the five main tree species in Alishan: hemlock, red juniper, Taiwan cypress, Taiwan Xiaonan, Luan Dashan, It can be seen here, and the soil types along the Alishan Railway, rocks and fossils unearthed in Alishan such as sea urchins, bivalve shells, etc., are also readily available.