Price of Knowledge Part II
This is a continuation comments on my recent trip to Taipei, Taiwan.
During the 8 day trip to Taipei, I have been to many scenic places like Yeh Liu(where the sand sculpture that looks like a Queen’s head is), Jiu Fen (where the streets scene and food are amazing), National Palace Museum (where it contains a lot of Ancient Chinese Artifacts) and many more.
After the trip, when I was counting the amount of money I have spent during the trip. To my amazement, I only spent around NT$200 dollars for tickets to museum and scenic areas. They are for National Palace Museum, Yeh Liu and Astronomical Museum. This means it costs around S$10.00? I am absolutely surprised.
When I was researching on the places of interest in Taipei, I was also shocked at the number of museums over there. Both big and small is around 20 over museums in Taipei alone. In Singapore, I am not sure of the number of museums because I am not interested in going because most of them charge and it is not value for money, in my opinion. Over at Taipei, the ticket prices are so cheap and there are many museums and places of interest which are actually free.
Museums and most places of interest are big Treasure trove of knowledge. Knowledge like the history, culture and people of the place. This would foster parents to bring their kids to these places to absorb or at least immerse in the treasure trove so they would more or less gain some knowledge through their senses. They would be able to learn more about the local culture, better appreciate it and develop sense of belonging to the nation.
I know museums incur running expenses but would it not be possible to engage volunteers? Volunteers can come from Universities, elderly and other sources you can think of. The Astronomical Museum that I went to in Taipei, has volunteers helping out.
Instead of charging high ticket prices ($25 just for entrance fee alone for family to one of the places of interest in Singapore is absurd.) $25 is still a lot of money for lower income families.
My point here is that knowledge from these treasure trove of knowledge should be made as cheap as possible so that citizens in a nation can enjoy and absorb these knowledge. Maybe the government can subsidies some of these places and tie the amount of subsidies with the number of visitors in a period of time. It would greatly increase the knowledge level of the nation and again knowledge would not be made exclusive to only a group of people.
Hopefully, someone saw this and would make some changes. Cheers!
During the 8 day trip to Taipei, I have been to many scenic places like Yeh Liu(where the sand sculpture that looks like a Queen’s head is), Jiu Fen (where the streets scene and food are amazing), National Palace Museum (where it contains a lot of Ancient Chinese Artifacts) and many more.
After the trip, when I was counting the amount of money I have spent during the trip. To my amazement, I only spent around NT$200 dollars for tickets to museum and scenic areas. They are for National Palace Museum, Yeh Liu and Astronomical Museum. This means it costs around S$10.00? I am absolutely surprised.
When I was researching on the places of interest in Taipei, I was also shocked at the number of museums over there. Both big and small is around 20 over museums in Taipei alone. In Singapore, I am not sure of the number of museums because I am not interested in going because most of them charge and it is not value for money, in my opinion. Over at Taipei, the ticket prices are so cheap and there are many museums and places of interest which are actually free.
Museums and most places of interest are big Treasure trove of knowledge. Knowledge like the history, culture and people of the place. This would foster parents to bring their kids to these places to absorb or at least immerse in the treasure trove so they would more or less gain some knowledge through their senses. They would be able to learn more about the local culture, better appreciate it and develop sense of belonging to the nation.
I know museums incur running expenses but would it not be possible to engage volunteers? Volunteers can come from Universities, elderly and other sources you can think of. The Astronomical Museum that I went to in Taipei, has volunteers helping out.
Instead of charging high ticket prices ($25 just for entrance fee alone for family to one of the places of interest in Singapore is absurd.) $25 is still a lot of money for lower income families.
My point here is that knowledge from these treasure trove of knowledge should be made as cheap as possible so that citizens in a nation can enjoy and absorb these knowledge. Maybe the government can subsidies some of these places and tie the amount of subsidies with the number of visitors in a period of time. It would greatly increase the knowledge level of the nation and again knowledge would not be made exclusive to only a group of people.
Hopefully, someone saw this and would make some changes. Cheers!
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