Taxi Museum
計程車博物館 | |
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| Established | 9 July 2019 |
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| Location | Su'ao, Yilan County, Taiwan |
| Coordinates | 24°36′19″N 121°49′52″E / 24.605412°N 121.831144°E |
| Type | Automobile museum |
| Director | Lee Chi-Cheng[1] |
| Website | http://taximuseum.com/ |
The TAXI Museum (traditional Chinese: 計程車博物館; simplified Chinese: 計程车博物馆; pinyin: Jì chéng chē bówùguǎn) is an automobile museum of taxis in Su'ao, Yilan County, Taiwan.[2] The museum was established in 2019, and it displays several taxis and more than 2,000 taxi-related exhibits. The TAXI Museum is the first museum displays taxis in the world.[1]
History
Lee Chi-Cheng (Chinese:李濟成; pinyin: Lǐ jì chéng), director of the TAXI Museum, began to collect various taxi-related items after bought a toy taxi which the plate number is "NYC-1009" in New York City in 2000. [1][3][4]
Collections
NYC Taxi toy
The first collection Lee Chi-Cheng bought when he was traveling in New York in 2000. The plate number "NYC-1009" is same as his birthday: October 9.
Taxis
1947 WILLYS JEEP MB GPW
1957 MERCEDES-BENZ W123
1962 NISSAN BLUEBIRD P312
1967 AUSTIN FX4- 1972 CHECKER MARATHON
1980 裕隆 YUE LOONG 勝利 CEDRIC 803DL[5]- 1983 MERCEDES-BENZ W120
1988 PEUGEOT 505- 1988 裕隆 YUE LOONG 速利 Sunny 303
PEUGEOT 406 in Taxi (Replica)
2001 TOYOTA CROWN CONFORT (Red from Metropolitan Area)- 2001 TOYOTA CROWN CONFORT (Green from New Territories)
- 2001 TOYOTA CROWN CONFORT (Blue from Lantau Island)
- 2002 NISSAN CEFIRO A33
The taxi which clipped by TransAsia Airways Flight 235
A VOLKSWAGEN CADDY MAXI taxi which clipped by TransAsia Airways Flight 235 at Huandong Viaduct before the plane crashed into the Keelung River. The taxi protected the driver's and the passenger's lives after it hit by the plane. [6]
Other collections
- Cycle rickshaw from Taiwan and Indonesia
- Tuk-Tuk
- Taxi displays
- Taximeter
- A 1920s mechanical Taximeter from India
- Model taxis
- Any kinds of taxi-related exhibits, like CDs, books, toys, clothes, etc.
References
- ^ a b c 沈如峰 (2019-07-20). 張銘坤 (ed.). "宜蘭計程車博物館 車迷朝聖景點" (in Traditional Chinese). 宜蘭: 中央通訊社. Archived from the original on 2019-07-20. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
- ^ Hetherington, William (2019-07-26). "Taxi enthusiast opens museum to share his collection". Taipei Times. Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
- ^ 林翰言 (2019-07-09). "全台首家汽車主題文物館 Taxi Museum 計程車博物館正式於宜蘭開幕". 7car.tw 小七車觀點 (in Traditional Chinese). Archived from the original on 2019-07-21. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
- ^ Aries Huang (2020-10-12). "全球唯一 品味經典計程車歷史和風華 TAXI Museum計程車博物館" (in Traditional Chinese). 聯合新聞網. Archived from the original on 2021-08-28. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
- ^ "36歲「小藍」計程車 東港載客趴趴走 ｜ 自由時報 ｜ 自由時報". 自由時報 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2016-09-05.
- ^ "全球唯一計程車博物館 藏復興空難被撞小黃 李濟成 熱血擲6000萬 只為讓台灣更美好 ｜ 蘋果新聞網 ｜ 蘋果日報". 蘋果新聞網 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2020-02-15. Archived from the original on 2022-04-29.
External links
- Official website (in Chinese)