At that time Paul Lin, the head of Taiyuan Foundation, was hoping to donate his collection of over 5,200 puppet theater items to the Taipei City Government to establish a specialty museum. But there was no law on the books to allow for such a move, so the museum was cut from the budget.
當時台原董事長林經甫希望將自己珍藏的五千二百多件偶戲文物捐贈給台北市政府，並成立專業的偶博館，沒想到卻卡在沒有適當法源，致使偶博館預算遭到刪除。