The National Palace Museum on Monday debunked fake reports circulating on social media that the institution is getting ready to evacuate 90,000 artifacts in its collection to the U.S. and Japan. The report, which is written in China’s simplified characters, claims the evacuation was ordered by President Tsai Ing-wen, who is referred to as “unfilial.” Let’s hear from a museum representative.
Huang Yung-tai
National Palace Museum
As soon as we saw it, we posted a notice debunking the report on our official website and on social media. During a war, there are many risk factors. The museum is actually a fantastic place to protect the artifacts, thanks to the environment and its storage areas. We have not proposed moving the collection elsewhere. And less so to evacuate them to another country.
The museum has almost 700,000 items in its collection, many of which were brought to Taipei from Beijing’s Forbidden City during the Chinese Civil War. Back in July, the institution held a drill with 180 staff members on what to do in case war breaks out. They included exercises on how to request help from the police and the military if security facilities are breached by the enemy or objects stolen. The museum stressed that the collection was safe, and that it would not remove items from its storerooms.
中國網軍又釋放假訊息,打認知作戰,在網路上散布總統蔡英文準備將9萬件故宮國寶轉移到美國、日本尋求保護,甚至批評蔡英文是不孝子孫,對此,故宮出面嚴正駁斥假消息,強調絕無此事。
[[國立故宮博物院副院長黃永泰]]
“那我們在第一時間,馬上在官網跟國內社群媒體,提出嚴正聲明,絕無此事。在戰爭的時候,任何一個因素都是一個風險,當然在故宮裡面,保護我們的文物,基本上在環境上或是庫房,這時候是一個絕佳的地點。到目前為止,我們還沒有提出所謂的要移置方案,尤其是移置到國外這沒有。”
故宮物院內收藏近70萬件的文物,藏品源自宋、元、明、清四朝宮廷收藏。七月中,故宮180名人員曾進行各項戰時模擬演練,包括當安全設施遭敵方毀損、物件遭掠奪時,如何向軍警求援。故宮也強調,為了文物安全,不會將藏品移出庫房。
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