Taiwan Intertwined with the World

One of the central tropes of recent imaginings of Taiwan identity is Taiwan’s interconnectedness with the world. This assertion of Taiwan’s place in the world is critically important in a “nation” that is not recognized as such by most of the world. This chapter explores two museums—the Museum of World Religions (世界宗教博物館‎) and the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum (國立故宮博物院南部院區‎)—that explicitly adopt a global perspective, expressing Taiwan’s simultaneous desire to be integrated with the world and to matter to that world, even if only on religious and cultural levels.