Sun Ten Museum (順天美術館)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Sun Ten Museum
- Chinese: 順天美術館
- Era: Contemporary
- Geography: Taiwanese American community
- Core roles: Community organization (TAH directory)
Sun Ten Museum is a nonprofit fine arts museum located in Irvine, California, founded in 1996 in commemoration of Dr. Hong-yen Hsu, known as the “Father of Scientific Chinese Herbal Medicine.” The museum holds the “Sun Ten Collection,” a documentarily significant collection of Taiwanese artists’ works spanning approximately 100 years of art movements on Taiwan. Sun Ten Museum aims to preserve Taiwanese cultural treasures, serve as an open cultural resource for the community, and act as a bridge for cultural interchange in the United States. The museum presents regular rotating exhibitions from the Sun Ten Collection, annual large-scale themed exhibitions, and is developing a Taiwan Artists Information Center and a Taiwan Artists Works Lending Center.
Timeline
- 1996-07-27 — earliest exhibition documented in the community corpus: 台灣本土前輩畫家和陳飛龍雕塑系列作品展, Irvine, CA — 2. 台灣本土前輩畫家和陳飛龍雕塑系列作品展 by 順天美術館 (1996-07-27), consistent with the museum’s 1996 founding year.
- 2015-02 — community outreach: the Irvine台灣長老教會 (ITPC) 長青教室 senior class organized a visit to the museum — 2015-02 (“參觀順天美術館 張宣信牧師”).
- 2017 — institutional history preserved in the community corpus: 31. Brief History of Sun Ten Museum 順天美術館的簡介.
- 2018-09-30 — donated 600 paintings spanning nearly a century of Taiwanese artists back to Taiwan (中央社 report held as 13. Shun-Tien Art Museum generously donated 600 paintings to Taiwan).
- 2019 — the same donation covered by community record 143. 順天美術館藏橫跨一世紀 慨贈逾600件畫作「回家」.
- 2019 — collection shown in the 告別鄉親美東巡迴展, documented at 37. 順天美術館藏品展—告別鄉親美東巡廻展.
Re-verified 2026-09-22 (slice 09211400-10): corpus re-grep (works/articles) returns exactly the six records already documented in the Timeline above (art-exhibitions-2, ourjourneys107, history-of-sun-ten-museum, 13-shun-tien-art-museum-donates, videos143, art-exhibitions37) — no new memoir or event mention of 順天美術館; verify-saturated. Re-grep 2026-09-22 (slice 09220800-23, incl. 順天美術館 / Sun Ten / Shun-Tien variants): same six records, no new mention. SKIP (saturated).
Re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230317-22, incl. 順天美術館 / Sun Ten / Shun-Tien variants): same six records as documented in the Timeline, no new mention. SKIP (saturated).
Re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240317-27, 順天美術館 / Sun Ten / Shun-Tien variants, works+articles): same six records (art-exhibitions-2, ourjourneys107, history-of-sun-ten-museum, 13-shun-tien-art-museum-donates, videos143, art-exhibitions37) — no new mention. SKIP (saturated).
Re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09250700-23): same six records, no new mention. SKIP (saturated).
Re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09260500-9, 順天美術館 / Sun Ten / Shun-Tien variants, works+articles): same six records (art-exhibitions-2, ourjourneys107, history-of-sun-ten-museum, 13-shun-tien-art-museum-donates, videos143, art-exhibitions37) — no new mention. SKIP (saturated).
Re-grep 2026-10-04 (slice 09300348-4, 順天美術館 / Sun Ten / Shun-Tien variants, works+articles): same six records (art-exhibitions-2, ourjourneys107, history-of-sun-ten-museum, 13-shun-tien-art-museum-donates, videos143, art-exhibitions37) — no new mention. SKIP (saturated). hits-hash=8e792e197f8f