Museum Internship
In spring of 2025, I interned at the Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines (順益原住民博物館) in Taipei, Taiwan, during my two-semester study abroad. I completed three projects there: designing an educational activity for children, a museum exhibit scavenger hunt, and museum stickers.
School Group Activity
This game is for the Children's Day holiday in April. It needed to be an educational game of some kind which incorporated a children's book on an indigenous Taiwanese group.
Players lay out the steps of how to grow millet and hold a harvest festival, with the steps and order based on the children's book 「回家」 by Lu Yifang (盧怡方) and the Lalaulan tribe (拉勞蘭部落), and illustrated by YiVon Cheng (鄭宜芳). Traditionally, millet is an important crop to many indigenous groups in Taiwan. Reading aloud the book and then playing the game with children is an engaging way for them to learn about these traditions.
The game boards are two animal native to Taiwan, the Formosan clouded leopard and the Formosan black bear, and the boards they hold feature the hundred-pace viper.
Exhibit Scavenger Hunt
The scavenger hunt features a variety of large and small artifacts from the museum's permanent exhibitions on traditional indigenous Taiwanese ways of life. Museum visitors can search for them as they navigate the exhibits.
Museum Stickers
I also illustrated stickers for the museum's use. The designs are inspired by the museum's branding and native Taiwanese fauna. They may be given out as prizes for completing the scavenger hunt or other museum activities.
