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An artist-run space by the harbour, an art centre beside the light rail, a house that a political prisoner came home to, a memorial park across a ferry ride, and a restored air-force village up north in Gangshan.
Sanmin, KaohsiungIndependent bookshop: picture books, comics and exhibitions
Pause near the station for picture books, comics and original art.
Original art from 儲玉玲’s Taigi picture book 若是一个島想欲去旅行 is on the first floor through November 1. Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
About 450 metres from Kaohsiung station; allow ten minutes on foot to 59 Songjiang Street.
Noon–19:00; closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
KaohsiungContemporary art, fibre and vintage furniture
Look at branching forms and felted faces among vintage furniture in Yancheng.
Beside Exit 4 of Yanchengpu MRT on the Orange Line. Look for 55möbler at 72-1 Dayong Road.
Sanmin, KaohsiungScience, industry and design museum
Two old televisions that would not concede even two centimetres.
About 750 metres / 11 minutes from the TRA station
Ticket sales end at 16:00; national or compensatory holidays override Monday closure.
Gangshan, KaohsiungRestored air-force village
Some postwar additions stay beside the older buildings.
Roughly 2.1 km, about 30 minutes on foot from Gangshan Station
Hamasen, KaohsiungRailway museum and port history
A freight office, old gazettes and mechanical signals: see how a port city went to work.
Walk from O1 or C14 Hamasen
Museum hours. The signal tower opens on weekends and national holidays; the outdoor park is outside the museum schedule.
Yancheng, KaohsiungArtist-organized space
The former Dayong Road rooms held nearly thirty years of memory; the Daren Road space lets the same community keep exhibiting, working, and meeting.
Yanchengpu MRT, a four-minute walk along Daren Road
Gushan District, KaohsiungArt centre
The Gesture of Being runs from September 12 to August 29, 2027, putting five very different methods — Chang En-Man, Shi Jin-Hua, Yeesookyung, Charwei Tsai and Yeh Wei-Li — in one place.
Two minutes on foot from the Shoushan Park / ALIEN Art Centre light rail stop
Closed Monday except public holidays. The Gesture of Being opens September 12.
KaohsiungMuseum
Walk into the Neiweipi park from light-rail C21 for the museum's large galleries and changing B1 KSpace projects.
Michael Craig-Martin: The Language of the Everyday runs October 3–March 7, 2027 in galleries 101–103 and the park. Special-exhibition tickets: NT$380 full, NT$250 concession; last entry 17:00. The ticket also admits you to the general exhibitions that day.
B1 KSpace: Lihan Umaw's tamas runs October 31–December 13.
Five to eight minutes on foot from Kaohsiung Light Rail C21; about twenty minutes by the accessible route
Closed Monday.
Xinxing, KaohsiungFormer home and publishing house
Three floors keep First Publishing and the family home together. The strongest room follows the fifteen years Tsai A-li ran the business and raised three children while Ko was imprisoned.
Kaohsiung Main Station R11, walking down Zhongshan 1st Road
Qijin, KaohsiungMemorial museum and park
The museum covers Taiwanese people conscripted into Japanese, Nationalist, and Communist forces, including several armies in the same family history.
Ferry from Gushan to Qijin, then south
The park itself is always open; these hours are the museum's, which closes Mondays and the day after national holidays.
Wednesday–Saturday · food and paid activities extra
Choose Wednesday–Saturday for this pairing; the café closes Sunday–Tuesday.
Gushan to Pier-2 · room beside the harbour
ALIEN ordinarily closed Monday; public holidays follow museum announcements.
Kaohsiung · a full day
Best Wednesday through Sunday.
