Lin Mun-lee

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lin.

Lin Mun-lee (Chinese: 林曼麗; born 8 August 1954) is a Taiwanese scholar and writer. She served as Deputy Director of National Palace Museum from 2004 to 2006, and its Director between 2006 and 2008.

Lin Mun-lee
林曼麗
Lin Mun-lee in April 2020
Director of National Palace Museum
In office January 2006 – May 2008
Preceded by	Shih Shou-chien
Succeeded by	Chou Kung-shin
Personal details
Born	(1954-08-08) 8 August 1954 Taiwan
Education	National Taiwan Normal University (BA) University of Tokyo (MA, PhD)
Occupation	Scholar writer
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	林曼麗
Simplified Chinese	林曼丽
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lín Mànlì

Life and career

Lin Mun-lee was born on 8 August 1954 in Taiwan, where she completed her bachelor's degree in art from National Taiwan Normal University in 1976. She received her master's degree and doctor's degree in education from the University of Tokyo in 1983 and 1988, respectively.

Lin returned to Taiwan in April 1989 and that year became an associate professor of the Department of Education at National Taiwan Normal University. In November 1996 Lin Mun-lee was recruited by Taipei Mayor Chen Shui-bian as president of Taipei Fine Arts Museum, she held that office until July 2000. She became deputy secretary-general of Chinese Cultural Renaissance Association in September 2000, and served until February 2003. In February 2003 she was chairman of the board of National Culture & Arts Foundation, a position in which she remained until September 2004.

In May 2004 she became the deputy director of National Palace Museum, rising to director in January 2006. After stepping down from the National Palace Museum, Lin returned to the National Taipei University of Education faculty. In 2012, she established the Museum of National Taipei University of Education. The museum's first exhibit featured Taiwanese artist educated in Japan, including Lee Shih-chiao, Liao Chi-chun, Huang Tu-shui, and Chen Cheng-po. In 2021, Lin located a lost work of Huang's, Sweet Dew, which had been completed in 1919, featured in the 1921 Japanese imperial art exhibition, and subsequently gone missing for fifty years.