Today Art Museum is based on the practical principle that the collection should be freely accessible for public use. It is also grounded in the Enlightenment idea that human cultures can, despite their differences, understand one another through mutual engagement. TAM was intended to be a place where this kind of humane cross-cultural investigation could happen. 

Today Art Museum Collection has recently begun focusing on a current media trend in the development of Chinese contemporary art: digital arts, which play a vital role in contemporary art. They not only reflect the creative features, but also represent in a sense the avant-garde characteristics during the time of creation. Digital arts represents the structure of the modern world, and how it has been changed dramatically because of the development of technology. Today Art Museum Digital Arts Collection Display selects artists representing four different decades of time during which technology—and subsequently digital arts—have evolved.