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Establishment Purpose

• Established in January 2002 affiliated to the Ministry of Culture (formerly Council for Cultural Affairs), the National Center for Traditional Arts (NCFTA) is Taiwan’s first folk art park ever planned and built by the government to develop traditional art talents; investigate, research, preserve, continue and develop, inherit, and innovate traditional arts. Although the center is positioned as a “government agency,” part of its facilities and business have been “outsourced” for private operations, demonstrating a dual-track operations model. In response to the amendment to the Cultural Heritage Preservation Act, the center transferred part of its business and staff to the “Preparatory Office of the Headquarters Administration of Cultural Heritage” in 2007. On March 2008, the “Preparatory Office of the National Headquarters of Taiwan Traditional Arts” (NHTTA) was established to integrate traditional art resources and the NCFTA, Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology, and the three national traditional drama groups: MOE GuoGuang Opera Company, Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company and National Experimental Chinese Orchestra. Under the NHTTA there are five branches: Center for Traditional Arts, GuoGuang Opera Company, Taiwan Bangzi Opera Company, National Chinese Orchestra Taiwan, and Taiwan Music Institute to engage in the education and publicity of traditional arts. In the organizational restructuring made after the Ministry of Culture (MOC) was established in May 2012, the center was renamed NCFTA as a tier-3 MOC agency.

Department Introduction

As Taiwan’s important cultural and art asset, the NCFTA is an MOC agency established to plan the maintenance, investigation, research, preservation, inheritance, and development of traditional arts across Taiwan and to become the field for realizing and demonstrating policies for intangible cultural assets.

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