Imagine you don’t have a watch or cell phone with you. How would you be able to tell the time exactly? History taught us how to use various objects around us to solve problems.Yes, sundial is one of the answer.

When heading towards the main building of the museum, visitors will pass a park on the right wing of the building. There, visitors will find a plot of land in the shape of a three-story ellipse with a granite base and pastel ceramics. There are a number of visual forms designed such as clock lines, curves, and so on. That is the museum’s sundial. Our sundial in the National Education Museum is a horizontal sundial. Uniquely, the producer of the shadows are the visitors themselves, producing shadows through their height. Unlike most sundials, our sundial’s does not use gnomons and triangular forms. This means that visitors are able to do their own simulation by making themselves a pivot point on an elliptical plane, under the shadow of the sun falling on a cross section designed to be circular.
However, worry not! As our staff are always more than willing to help carry out this simulation! So visitors are able to know the exact time according to the shadow point created. Interesting, right?