Library, museum feature Maxwell, literature, artBy Wu Chun-feng and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNAThe grand opening of the Tainan Main Municipal Library today is to feature exhibitions on James Maxwell, a Scottish Presbyterian missionary and physician, and the literature of Tainan’s coastal areas, the Tainan Cultural Affairs Bureau said yesterday. The main branch of the Tainan Public Library is pictured yesterday. Two exhibitions about late British doctor James Maxwell and local literature development are set to take place at the venue starting today. The library is to display texts authored by Gustave Cheng (鄭順聰), illustrations of Tainan’s coastal landscape by Da Chang (大昌) and installation art pieces, the bureau said. For visually impaired visitors, the museum would provide a special audio guide and replicas of the chairs in the portraits, which visitors are allowed to touch, it added.

Source: Taipei Times January 01, 2021 15:56 UTC