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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.

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

Indigenous Popular Music in Pingtung

2026

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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Too large to feel like a museum. The dance hall, the reconstructed village architecture, and the exhibition spaces are spread over the slope; half a day is the minimum.

The park is run by the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Development Center and divided into areas across the slope, including the dance hall in the Naluwan area and reconstructed architecture from different peoples. A shuttle runs between them.

From May 5 to September 30, 2026, it shows Indigenous Popular Music: From Mountain Ballads to Pop Hits, with the pasenay programme of events alongside it. The park opens Tuesday to Sunday 8:30–17:00, closed Monday except on national holidays. Admission is NT$150, NT$80 for students, and free for visitors over 65, under 6, or with a disability certificate. It is cash only and does not lend pushchairs or wheelchairs.

An orange poster carries the exhibition title in large white type, a silhouetted guitarist at the upper right, a vinyl record grooved with a world map at the centre, and the venue and 5.5–9.30 run printed below.

Indigenous Popular Music: From Mountain Ballads to Pop Hits, key visual

2026

Key visual for Indigenous Popular Music: From Mountain Ballads to Pop Hits. Image: Indigenous Peoples Cultural Development Center.

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The upper half lists the September 11 wedding-culture workshop and the September 12 performance with times and locations; below, an oil painting shows four Paiwan women elders in full dress singing into microphones around a small table set with water bottles and betel nut.

pasenay programme poster

Ma Yu-fang · 2026

Poster for the pasenay programme; painting supplied by Ma Yu-fang. Image: Indigenous Peoples Cultural Development Center.

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Get there

Public transport

From Zuoying HSR/Xinzuoying, take Kaohsiung Bus 511 to Shuimen Transfer Station. On weekends and national holidays, transfer to 603B for the park; Tuesday–Friday, reserve the park's electric shuttle. The September 11 afternoon workshop ends at 17:00, after the regular last shuttle, so arrange the return in advance.

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