臺灣地區位處歐亞大陸板塊及菲律賓海板塊之縫合帶上,自1897年日治時期於臺北測候所裝設地震儀以來,迄於2009年發生10次重大地震,921集集大地震更是臺灣百年以來損失最大的地震,地震後為了紀念、反省及防災教育,而興建921地震教育園區,以保存地震原址、記錄地震史實,並提供社會大眾及學校有關地震教育之活教材,以建立正確的防災觀念。從而建立車籠埔斷層保存館、地震工程館、影像館、防災教育館及重建館,並同時逐步進行文物物件徵集充實館藏,以活潑化方式推廣科學及防災教育,配合期程進行特展展品更新,以期防災救災觀念落實於生活中,增進社會對於地震之反應能力。
Taiwan is located at the suture zone of the Eurasian plate and the Philippine Sea plate. The Taipei weather observation station has detected 10 times of significant earthquake until 2009, since it installed the first seismograph at the beginning of the Japanese colonial period in 1897. The Chi-Chi earthquake occurred in 1999 was the most severe earthquake over a hundred year. The 921 Earthquake Museum was established for commemoration of the earthquake; reflection; and prevention education to preserve the site of the earthquake, which keeps seismic records and historical facts. It also provides the function of community-level education for educating people about earthquake with live materials to establish the concept of disaster preventive via the museum. Chelungpu fault Museum, the Earthquake Engineering Center, Imaging Center, disaster prevention and reconstruction of Museum Education Center were constructed to acquisition of historic relics of the earthquake gradually for enriching collections and propagating the awareness of earthquakes and disaster prevention education. We expected to update special exhibits with schedules for implement the concept of disaster prevention and disaster relief into every body's daily life, and enhance the capability of proceeding instaneous reactions to earthquakes.