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.
Tainan Art Museum Building 1 exterior
Tainan Art Museum Building 1. Photograph published on the museum's architecture page. Editorial use.
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Start at the old police-station facade, then follow the glass corridor into the newer galleries behind it.
Building 1 occupies Tainan's former police station, designed by Sutejirou Umezawa and completed in 1931. Its stepped Art Deco gable and warm brickwork face Nanmen Road; a glass corridor connects the restored building to the newer galleries behind it.
Take time over that meeting of old and new before continuing across the road towards the Confucius Temple and Fuzhong Street. This is the municipal museum at 37 Nanmen Road; the National Museum of Modern Art Tainan nearby on Zhongyi Road is a separate venue.
Get there
Public transport
Allow twenty minutes on foot from Tainan Station's front side, about 1.1 km. From HSR Tainan, take H31 to Jiansing Junior High School on Fuqian Road, then walk about five minutes.
This stop is part of these guides
November 1 · a police station, cloth house and water
Tainan's opening weekend: a Sunday art walk
- Afternoon into evening
This route is for Sunday, November 1. Museum: 10:00–18:00, last admission 17:30; Gimgoanheng: 10:00–18:00. On October 31 the water area hosts a separately ticketed Halloween event.
Sun, Nov 1: every stop has published hours
Sources
- Tainan Art Museum: architecture ↗ — Police-station history, architecture and photograph
- Tainan Art Museum: Investigation Chronicles ↗ — Current programme, dates and gallery
- Tainan Art Museum: hours and admission ↗ — Opening policy, October 26 opening and typhoon rule
- Tainan Art Museum: transport ↗ — HSR H31 shuttle and bus stop
- Tainan City: October23transport arrangements ↗ — October 23 work and school suspension and transport changes