So much so, in fact, that when the government recently invited the public to pick an image they thought would best serve as a symbol of Taiwan, puppet theater was the leading choice. It might come as a surprise, then, to learn that metropolitan Taipei's first museum dedicated to the art--Lin Liu-Hsin Puppet Theatre Museum (LLM) --is run by a tall Dutchman named Robin Ruizendaal.
台灣，是布袋戲之鄉，「轟動武林、驚動萬教」的布袋戲才剛奪得「台灣意象」票選第一名寶座，然而台北都會區首座專業偶博館──「林柳新紀念偶戲博物館」，卻是由一位老外掌舵。