Among them was entrepreneur Chiu Tse-tung, who donated two floors in the Sogo building to the museum, with construction formally beginning in 1995.
這份堅持並且感動了素昧平生的永和企業家邱澤東，慨然捐出 Sogo 百貨樓上兩層樓作為宗博建地，一九九五年正式破土興建。