Places

Places for art and culture

Museums, art spaces, bookshops, writers' houses, and memorial rooms across Taiwan, plus rooms abroad where Taiwanese artists are working. Every page includes hours, directions, and image sources.

The characters 勝利 fill an orange field above a figure and floral forms.

Image: New Sin Pin Pier. Original source: the current exhibition highlight.

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Yancheng, Kaohsiung · Artist-organized space

New Sin Pin Pier

Founded in 1997, it lost its Dayong Road rooms in 2026, moved to Daren Road, and kept programming.

Closed Monday and Tuesday

A square key visual in blue-to-magenta gradient with the bold words Signal World [REC] filling the frame above organizer and funder lines.

Organizer-supplied image published with the NCAF programme record.

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Longjing, Taichung · Art space

852 Art Space

Signal World [REC] runs at 852 Art Space on Tunghai Art Street from September 5 to 27.

Current exhibition Wednesday–Sunday, 13:00–19:00

Seen through a reflective window, Ting Bookstore has a wall of books and a long wooden display table holding open volumes beneath the reflected pine trees.

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Hualien City · Independent sound-culture bookstore

Ting Bookstore

Shelves of music, sound engineering, and theory around a long table made for sitting and reading.

Wednesday–Thursday, 10:00–17:00. Free entry. Telephone +886 933 896 828

Cao Kai-zhi and Li Ruo-mei stand inside Little Island Universe among wooden furniture, books, paintings and ceramics.

Photograph and reporting: Wang Chih-chieh, Matsu Daily, 2026. Cropped by Look Three Small from the published two-business composite to show the Little Island Universe frame. Editorial use.

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Nangan, Matsu · Artist-rebuilt ancestral house and arts café

Little Island Universe

Two artists spent four years rebuilding a century-old ancestral house for art, vessels, food, and daily life.

11:30–19:00; closed Wednesday and Thursday

The wide visual for Reality Sandwich: Keelung Harbor places three film frames together: the port, a Korean barber at work in his shop, and a close view of an Aloha Hotel key tag.

Exhibition visual courtesy of Ho Bin Kim and Accton Arts Foundation. Editorial use.

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Hsinchu City · Exhibition venue

Hsinchu Railway Art Village

Former railway warehouses beside Hsinchu Station, about ten minutes on foot, with accessible facilities.

Tuesday–Sunday 10:00–18:00, closed Monday

In a yellow landscape, two standing pigs carry beer and pizza while a third approaches in a red cap.

Exhibition image for Yvonne Chen's Time to Wander, published by Huashan 1914.

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Zhongzheng, Taipei · Mixed cultural-commercial park

Huashan 1914

Exhibitions, street performances, brands, character goods, tourism, and public space overlap throughout the day.

Park and event hours vary; Time to Wander is daily 11:00–19:00

A black wall inside the museum carrying poems, leading to the fire-damaged editor-in-chief's room behind glass.

The approach to the preserved editor-in-chief's room. Poems by Nylon Cheng's family and colleagues appear on the black wall before the fire-damaged room. Photo: Chen An. Source: Museum Island. Editorial use.

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Songshan, Taipei · Former newsroom, archive, memorial

Nylon Cheng Foundation and Memorial Museum

The Magazine Office on Freedom Lane

Saturday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Free admission; reserve online before visiting

The interior of a wooden studio: a reflective sprung floor, windows running along three sides, dark timber beams overhead.

Photograph by Outlookxp, 2024. CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Zhongshan, Taipei · Dance studio, historic site, programme venue

Tsai Jui-yueh Dance Institute

Dancers still practise in this rebuilt wooden studio, part of the history of modern dance in Taiwan.

Monday–Friday 10:00–18:00; closed weekends and national holidays

Raised characters reading “a brave man should fight for justice” span a dark museum wall, with a bust of Lai Ho and vitrines to the left.

Venue photograph published by the Changhua County Cultural Affairs Bureau.

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Changhua City · Literary archive and memorial museum

Lai Ho Memorial Museum

The manuscripts of Taiwan's new literature stayed in Changhua rather than moving to the capital.

Tuesday–Saturday 10:00–12:00 and 13:30–17:00; closed Sunday, Monday, and national holidays

A wooden-floored corridor with white walls and old timber windows, calligraphy scrolls hung along it, opening into the next gallery.

Venue photograph from a 2026 Tainan City Government news release.

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West Central District, Tainan · Literary museum

Yeh Shyr-tau Literary Memorial Museum

The redesigned museum uses maps, book walls, and a ceiling installation to present Yeh's Tainan.

Wednesday–Sunday 09:00–17:00; closed Monday, Tuesday, Lunar New Year's Eve, and Lunar New Year's Day

The second-floor living room at Ko Chih-hua Residence, with a wall of books beside the family's sofas, tables, calligraphy, and household furnishings.

Photograph by Tyler Cottenie for the Taipei Times, 2026.

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Xinxing, Kaohsiung · Former home and publishing house

Ko Chih-hua Residence

First Publishing downstairs; the family's living room, study, books, and prison letters upstairs.

Tuesday–Sunday and national holidays 13:00–17:00; closed Monday and Lunar New Year's Eve

In a seaside park, a winged dark figure stands on a plinth in front of the low theme museum under an evening sky.

Photograph by Bunnyman17, 2014. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Qijin, Kaohsiung · Memorial museum and park

War and Peace Memorial Park and Theme Museum

Taiwanese conscripted into several different armies, remembered facing the sea.

Park open all day; museum 10:00–18:00, closed Monday and the day after designated holidays

A gallery inside the former police station: a curved wooden display table encircles the room beneath arched windows and a hanging lamp.

Photograph by Tbatb, 2018. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Datong, Taipei · Memorial museum in a former police station

Taiwan New Cultural Movement Memorial Museum

Reading groups, newspapers, and organizing work, exhibited inside the building that jailed them.

Tuesday–Sunday 09:30–17:30; closed Monday; free admission

The grey modern frontage of the museum, its name mounted above the doorway with palms on either side.

Photograph by Pbdragonwang, 2011. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Xinhua, Tainan · Literary museum, currently closed

Yang Kui Literary Memorial Museum

The author of The Newspaper Boy is remembered in Xinhua, and the museum is currently shut.

Closed until 16 October 2026 and not a place you can currently visit.

Under night lighting, densely woven bamboo fills a broken opening in an old factory wall, curling on the right into a round tunnel a visitor can walk into.

Image: Yilan Tourism (Yilan County Government).

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Wujie, Yilan · Cultural park in a former paper mill

Chung Hsing Cultural and Creative Park

The sheds and chimney of the 1935 Chung Hsing Paper Mill now give land art room to spread out.

During the festival: indoor exhibitions 10:00–18:00, closed Wednesday; outdoor works open daily, lit until 22:00 in the final week

A yellow form crosses circular wall mounts, drops and gathers loosely on the floor beside a large dense brown hanging mass.

Huang Shao-ying's wall-and-floor installation. A yellow form crosses circular wall mounts, drops and gathers on the floor beside a dense hanging mass. Artwork: Huang Shao-ying. Image: © 2026 Tainan Art Museum. Editorial use.

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West Central District, Tainan · City art museum in the former police station

Tainan Art Museum Building 1

The old police station on Nanmen Road, now a museum with rooms at a walkable scale and Saturdays open until nine.

Tuesday to Sunday 10:00–18:00 · Saturday until 21:00 · closed Monday, open on national holidays

At night on the Kangle Street side, a painter works high on a large dragon form, its green scales edged in fluorescent line; paint cups, a folding table and a light box stand on the ground below.

A painter works beneath the fluorescent-edged form before the exhibition's first night. Image: LONG FLOW TAINAN / Fake Fire Atelier. Editorial use.

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West Central District, Tainan · Sunken public water plaza

The Spring

The pool left where the China-Town mall came down: a place to put your feet in by day, an exhibition space after dark.

During the exhibition 17:30–22:00 · final admission 21:00 · closed Tuesdays · free

A narrow mirrored slot set into a board-marked concrete wall reflects sky and a clump of grass, with water marks and green algae gathering along its lower edge.

Zhang Jun-Ci, Corridor of Sound: Tuning in Between, 2026. Image: Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art.

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Caotun, Nantou · Private museum in the hills

Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art

A board-marked concrete grey box below Jiujiu Peak. Admission is free, but you have to book.

Tuesday to Sunday 10:00–17:00 · Thursday 10:00–15:00 · closed Monday and national holidays · reservation required

On a grassy slope at dusk, blue-green mosaic arcs curve out of the ground beside a long red-and-black patterned band, with plants growing between the arcs and a row of concrete blocks along the ridge behind.

Lua Rivera, The Elder, 2026, at the former Huayuan Elementary School. Image supplied by the 2026 South-Link Art Festival; source: ARTouch.

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Taimali and Jinfeng, Taitung · Outdoor art route along a highway

The South Link art route

Four stops on the southern end of Highway 9: a coastal slope, a hot spring by a river, a station hall, and a village hillside.

Outdoor works open at all hours · the Jinlun Station work follows station hours

Looking down into the museum's full-height atrium, a long narrow wooden boat rests on the floor hung with rows of small coloured objects, visitors standing around it and a timber-framed glass wall to the right.

A current view through the museum atrium, visitors and several installations occupying the three-floor volume. Photograph: Lin Hui-ru / PeoPo.

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West District, Chiayi · Municipal museum in a converted heritage building

Chiayi Art Museum

The 1936 tobacco and liquor monopoly bureau, now the city's own art museum, five minutes' walk from the railway station.

Tuesday to Sunday 9:00–17:00 · closed Monday

Visitors move between singer-history panels and cases of records and photographs, beneath low hanging lights patterned with Indigenous motifs.

The Pingtung installation of Indigenous Popular Music, with visitors moving between singer histories, records, photographs and hanging patterned lights. Image: TITV News.

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Majia, Pingtung · Indigenous cultural park on a hillside

Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Cultural Park

A whole hillside in Beiye, Majia Township, run by the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Development Center.

Tuesday to Sunday 8:30–17:00 · closed Monday, except national holidays

A white gallery where small metal sculptures sit on wooden plinths and low platforms, with a tall orange-red work standing against the far wall.

Installation view of Kuo Szumin's Sculptural Poems, Tina Keng Gallery, 2026. Small sculptures occupy plinths and low platforms; the 4.5-metre 《冉冉而生 #4》 stands at the far wall. Photo: ANPIS FOTO. Source: Tina Keng Gallery.

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Neihu, Taipei · Commercial gallery

Tina Keng Gallery

A ground-floor gallery off Ruiguang Road, tall enough to hold a 450-centimetre sculpture.

Tuesday–Saturday 11:00–19:00; closed Sunday–Monday

A small sculpture roughly seventeen centimetres high; a pink, gray and orange body carries a lion's face at each end, its surface covered in fine ridges and mineral flecks.

Qiāomǎoyuán — Lion. Resin, mica, quartz and pigment, 17 × 20 × 15 cm. Two outward-looking faces share one ridged, mineral-flecked body. Artwork: Chan Yung-jen. Image: Soil Space / Chan Yung-jen. Editorial use.

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West Central District, Tainan · Artist-run art space

Soil Space

A third-floor room in a lane off Minquan Road, showing one exhibition at a time and closed Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Friday–Tuesday 11:00–19:00; closed Wednesday and Thursday

Several slightly curved square ceramic panels hang on a white wall from small brass hooks; most are matte black, one is a speckled white glaze, each incised with fine straight dividing lines.

Work by Liu Chen-Chou in On the plate at Clay+. Image: Clay+ on Instagram.

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Da'an, Taipei · Ceramics exhibition space

Clay+

A ground-floor ceramics room in a lane off Chaozhou Street, showing one exhibition at a time on Thursday-to-Saturday afternoons.

Thursday–Saturday 13:00–17:00; other times by appointment

A pale fiber body bends into an unclosed loop above a stair landing, with a smaller circular fiber work on the opposite wall.

The stair encounter. Hou Guan-Ting's pale suspended fiber body hangs above the landing, with a smaller circular work opposite it. Image published by TSHI Ukhiam. Editorial use.

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Taoyuan District, Taoyuan · Independent exhibition space

NGSC Experimental Space

Five minutes from Taoyuan Railway Station, on the third floor of a Zhonghua Road building, open until 20:30.

Daily 12:40–20:30 (closed September 8, 14, 15, 21, 22; opens 16:00 on September 20)

The exhibition poster sets the title and dates over a 1998 image of Gao Jun-honn pulling the arrow-shaped wooden box.

The Unmoored exhibition poster, featuring Gao Jun-honn's Farewell! Departing by Now (1998/2020). Image: NYCU Arts Center. Editorial use.

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East District, Hsinchu · University arts space

NYCU Ho Ran Library B1 Arts Space

A gallery in the basement of the Guangfu Campus library, open on weekdays and free to enter.

Monday to Friday 10:30–18:30 · closed weekends and national holidays

A long pale cloth held half-unrolled on a clear wall support, red stitching running through Roman letters and other characters, with loose thread at both ends.

Chang En-Man, The Great Deluge: Oral History from Pacavalj. Red reverse stitching runs through a Pacavalj flood account preserved in a 1935 colonial record. Image supplied by the artist and published by GQ Taiwan. Editorial use.

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Gushan District, Kaohsiung · Art centre

ALIEN Art Centre

An art centre beside the Kaohsiung Light Rail Shoushan Park stop, two minutes from the platform to the ground-floor galleries.

Tuesday–Sunday 10:00–18:00 (closed Monday except public holidays)

A long white gallery with The Edge of Light at left and smaller paintings distributed across the remaining walls.

Installation view of The Frame, 2026. The Edge of Light hangs at left, with smaller paintings distributed across the gallery. Wang Sean; photo: choccat.cc; source: Project Fulfill Art Space. Editorial use for arts reporting.

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Da'an District, Taipei · Gallery

Project Fulfill Art Space

A ground-floor gallery in a lane off Xinyi Road, six minutes' walk from Daan MRT.

Tuesday–Saturday 11:00–19:00 (closed Sunday and Monday)

A black-and-white photograph: branches enter from above and from one side, dark planes interrupting a pale field.

Wang Yahui, Questions to Shadow #2, 2017. Ink, paper and directed light become a black-and-white photographic space. Taipei Fine Arts Museum collection. Editorial use.

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Zhongshan District, Taipei · Museum

Taipei Fine Arts Museum

The city's museum on the edge of Taipei Expo Park, a walk across the park from Yuanshan MRT.

Tuesday–Sunday 9:30–17:30; Saturday until 20:30 (closed Monday)

A low gray former warehouse beside Zhongshan Road, an ochre curtain over its entrance, with mountains rising beyond the roofs and power lines.

Image supplied by Fengsheng Bookstore; first published by Liberty Times. Editorial use.

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Shoufeng, Hualien · Independent village bookstore

Fengsheng Bookstore

A former warehouse beside Zhongshan Road; behind the ochre curtain, a wall of books and one long wooden table.

Friday–Monday, 13:00–18:00

At night, Lin Yu-Sheng in green waders and a headlamp reaches into an illuminated transparent tank beside a parked scooter, with a mapped coast across the lower part of the image.

Current exhibition image. Lin Yu-Sheng works beside a scooter and an illuminated transparent tank at night. Image: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. Editorial use.

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Kaohsiung · Museum

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts

The city museum beside the Neiweipi wetlands in Gushan, with B1 KSpace kept for experimental solo projects.

Tuesday–Sunday 09:30–17:30 · closed Monday

A gloved hand holds a stemmed glass upright; the glass sits in front of the fingers, with no face or table in the picture.

Huang Chih-Cheng & Hao, Furtive Joy / 《竊喜》, 2026. Ink, pigment ink, and watercolor on jangji paper mounted on canvas, 21 × 32 cm. Fragment Gallery lists silver foil; Huang's August 25 post lists gold. Courtesy of the artists and Fragment Gallery.

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New York · Gallery

Fragment Gallery

A third-floor room on West 14th Street showing Huang Chih-Cheng & Hao's first New York exhibition in September 2026.

Wednesday–Friday, 12–6 pm, and by appointment

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