National Taiwan Museum 國立臺灣博物館

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347 Reviews

Friday：09:30 - 17:00

4.3

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Introduction

The oldest of its kind in Taiwan, the National Taiwan Museum can be traced back to a showroom for the Bureau of Productive Industries (Shokusankyoku) erected by the colonial-era Taiwan Viceroy’s Office in 1899. The showroom’s displayed items were relocated to the Lottery Bureau behind the present-day Presidential Office, and gave rise to the 1908 opening of Taiwan Viceroy’s Office Museum. During 1913, the Qing-dynasty Tianhou Temple in what is now the 228 Peace Memorial Park was torn down to make way for the “Viceroy Kodama Gentaro and Chief Civil Administrator Goto Shinpei Memorial Museum”, which was a new project intended to house the Taiwan Viceroy’s Office Museum collection. It was rechristened the “Museum of Taiwan Province” in 1945 and “Taiwan Provincial Museum” in 1949, before receiving its current title “National Taiwan Museum” in 1999.

Sitting at the other end of Guanqian Road from Taipei Main Station, the National Taiwan Museum features a Grecian façade with towering columns, an acanthus leaves-embellished pediment and a domed hall accentuated by 32 columns, each with an ornate Corinthian capital, in addition to stained-glass skylights through which sunlight filters to cast dazzling patterns on the ground. While sentimentally bearing witness to Taiwan’s history, the Museum offers exhibitions as well as irregular events on a scale much unchanged since its founding.

Information

Themes: Historic Sites Art and Cultural Centers Public Art
Guiding Service: Booking
Subject: Family、Campus teaching
Suggested Months for Visiting: All year
Phone Number: +886-2-23822566
FAX: +886-2-23822684
Address: No. 2, Xiangyang Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City Taiwan, R.O.C

Opening Hours


Sunday	09:30 - 17:00
Monday	Off day
Tuesday	09:30 - 17:00
Wednesday	09:30 - 17:00
Thursday	09:30 - 17:00
Friday	09:30 - 17:00
Saturday	09:30 - 17:00

Services & Facilities

Toilets
Parking
Lost and found
Broadcast Service
Locker

Transportaiton

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Nearby MRT

R Tamsui-Xinyi Line NTU Hospital

Review

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4 Terrible
19 Poor
104 Average
142 Very good
78 Excellent

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73 Families
57 Couples
107 Solo
8 Business
57 Friends

Pierre E

Washington D.C., Distrito de Columbia

Worthwhile

2020-03

This is a relatively small museum, but it is packed with interesting artifacts and narrative about the island's history, whether about the aboriginal inhabitants or about its flora and faura. Located in beautiful Peace Park, the museum contains many pictures 100 years old+ of Taiwan's original residents and their villages, as well as many framed and preserved animals, insects, and shell creatures. A very interesting exhibit if you want to learn more about the island, including which native animals are now sadly extinct. A comprehensive visit won't take more than 2 hours tops. See the equally impressive museum across the street for a quick visit to dinosaur land -- ticket for one museum is valid for the other too. Seniors get in free!
619jeffry

Essendon, Australia

Japan's gift to Taiwan

2020-01

The Museum was built during the Japanese colonial era (1895-1945). It has been renovated beautifully, it is well worth the small entry fee. At the moment there is a very impressive exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art on show. You learn a lot about Taiwan's people and fauna.
jbushman2017

Fresno, California

Traveler type:

En pareja

Nice Building, Little to See

2020-01

When museum that has the word NATIONAL in front of it I expect a lot and there is very little here and really nothing of quality. I can not speak to the other reviewers but I visited the museum today and this is what I found. The building is a nice, though smallish, exhibit hall with 4 floors. Tickets cost 30NTD or 1 US dollar. Two of the floors were closed (the basement and floor 2). Floor 1 had an exhibit on Australian bark paintings. Yes these were nice but I came to see the permanent collection and to learn about Taiwan. The 3rd floor, the only floor with Taiwan focused stuff essentially only had an exhibit on the early anthropological pioneers who came to Taiwan to collect specimens for the museum. So there were some stuffed small animals and some large scale models of some of the insects on the island, and biographical info on the collectors but that was it, a museum with next to know viewable collection! No dinosaurs, no dioramas with large mammals, really little to be seen. Thirty minutes top to bottom and my wife and I were ready to go. Now the museum was on our way as we were passing though the area, so for a 1 dollar ticket I did not mind spending 30 minutes here, but do not make go out of your way to come here, it is just not worth it.
eat-play-love-life

Traveler type:

En familia

A comfortable and modern theatre

2019-12

This place is awesome. Unluckily, the weather is bad when we were there, otherwise, you can take good pictures in the sky garden (which is exactly located on 6/F). We saw a lot of funny exhibits there. Even kids won’t be bored. Of course, it is more recommended for arts lovers.
Gene R J

Silver Spring, Maryland

2 worthwhile museums at the top of the Peace Park.

2019-10

We began our 4 mile circuitous tour by walking 400 m south from our Hotel Relax 2 to this museum. Its prominent dome, seen blocks away, is the dominant feature inside its huge main hall. Reception gave us free senior tickets and we proceeded through the 1st floor's excellent special exhibit of Australian Aboriginal bark art. An elevator took us up to the 3rd floor for the natural history hall where we passed the Chinese pangolin before seeing the interesting and nicely described artifacts from Taiwan's indigenous tribes. Our tickets were also valid across the street at the Land Bank Museum featuring its old 2 story bank vault and an impressive Dinosaur Hall. Both excellent for a short perusal.