Over a hundred years ago, the Yingge ceramic industry was born out of this fertile land, enhancing the local Taiwanese culture with its boundless vitality. The pioneers, with their bursting creativity and strenuous determination, worked hard to make this town a prosperous center of ceramics design and production. The first modern ceramics museum in the nation combines the essence of the wisdom of industry, government, and scholars. It signals to the world that the fire in Yingge's kilns will never be extinguished. Here you will find masterpieces created with wind stoves, clay, and glazes, displayed in the hope that the beauty of Taiwanese ceramics will be recognized worldwide. "We have a well-designed exhibition space for ceramic art to set a benchmark for other ceramic exhibitions in Taiwan to follow. Be it a personal trip or as part of a tour group, foreign visitors to the Museum can help local artists gain international visibility, as well as introducing the world Taiwan's ceramics beauty.", said Yu Jan-chi (游冉琪), director of Yingge Ceramics Museum. Construction of the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum was first proposed in 1988, and it was opened to the public on November 26, 2000. In the twelve years that have passed since then, it has become the leading county museum in Taiwan and the first professional museum wholly dedicated to ceramics. In addition to exhibiting Taiwan’s ceramic culture, it also stimulates the public's interest in and attention to ceramics. While promoting the ceramic enterprises and local image of Yingge, the museum also encourages international culture exchange. Furthermore, the museum staff are surveying, gathering, preserving, and maintaining the ceramic culture of Taiwan for research, collection, exhibition, education and many other purposes.