摘要 1895年日本帝國佔領台灣首次展開殖民政權,其後歷經「兒玉後藤時代」(1898-1906)的經營,台灣全島逐漸趨於穩定發展,因於1908年成立「台灣總督府民政部殖產局附屬博物館」(簡稱:台灣總督府博物館),掌理蒐集、陳列台灣本島學術、技藝及產業所需之標本與參考品的,「這是台灣第一座博物館,也是運用現代科學觀念,有系統地收集、整理台灣各項知識的起點」,其主要目的為宣示對台灣統治之主權與宣揚治理殖民地之功績,而更重要的是以文化技術作為傳播殖民母國認同,掌控所謂「台灣真相」的歷史再現及文明與知識的詮釋權。 然而博物館代表西方現代化知識的窗口,台灣在殖民主義霸權的陰影與縫隙之間,透過日本殖民官僚與懷抱「開發新國土」的學者專家牽引下,卻也亦步亦趨逐步跨過西方現代化的鴻溝。本文主要試圖透過文獻研究及藉由「台灣總督府博物館」成立背景及其標本物件收藏,剖析台灣在殖民主義體制與知識現代性的互動與糾葛,並探討未來建構呈現台灣現代性的「台灣博物館系統」計畫願景。
Abstract The Japan Empire occupied Taiwan in 1895 and after the 1898-1906 term of Kodama Gentaro, the fourth Japanese Governor, this island entered into a period of stable development. In 1908, the colonizers established the “Bureau of Productive Industries’ Affiliated Museum under the Government-General of Taiwan” (referred to as the “Taiwan Governor’s Palace Museum”). The museum was tasked with the collection and exhibition of Taiwan’s academic, technical and industrial artifacts. It was Taiwan’s first museum that also used modern scientific methods in systematically gathering and classifying all the historical information about Taiwan. The main objective of this work was to make known the sovereignty of Japanese colonialism and publicize its achievements. Utilizing culture and technology, the colonizers sought to control what they considered the “True History of Taiwan” and promote the identification of its colony with Japan. However, the museum symbolized the era of modern western knowledge. This narrow crevice within the system of colonialist hegemony brought about the rise of intellectuals and men of letters within the ranks of Japan’s colonial administration. They were driven by the desire to cultivate a new national identity and gradually closed the gap that separated Taiwan from western modernization. This paper will try to analyze the interaction of modernity with Taiwan’s colonial period by using historical documents and artifacts that date back to the Taiwan Governor’s Palace Museum. It will discuss the conditions surrounding the eventual arrival of a plan for the establishment of a possible system of the Taiwan Museum Network.