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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.

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

The redesigned corridor, Yeh Shyr-tau museum, 2026

2026 · Official venue photograph

Venue photograph from a 2026 Tainan City Government news release.

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The redesign maps scenes from Yeh's fiction onto Tainan streets. A visit can show how much of Yeh's writing remains beside the map.

Yeh Shyr-tau wrote Tainan, and wrote about how Taiwanese literature should narrate itself. The museum occupies a Japanese-era public building and completed a new round of display work in 2026.

The redesign uses ceiling installations, book walls, and a transit-style literary map to reconnect scenes in the fiction to Tainan streets.

The map turns those scenes into routes. The museum still needs enough of Yeh's words and detail for the streets to remain more than names.

A wall diagram draws Tainan's literary geography like a transit map while a visitor stands with her back to the camera at the bookshelves beside it.

The literary route map wall, 2026

2026 · Official venue photograph

Venue photograph from a 2026 Tainan City Government news release.

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A two-storey brick and washed-stone building with steps and a signboard at the entrance, street trees in front.

The museum building, 2014

hongtila (Flickr) · 2014 · Documentary photograph

Photograph by hongtila, 2014. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Blue wave-shaped panels printed with story titles hang from the ceiling above a wooden doorway into the next room.

The new ceiling installation, 2026

2026 · Official venue photograph

Venue photograph from a 2026 Tainan City Government news release.

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Get there

Public transport

From TRA Tainan Station, a city bus or taxi is easiest. If you are already walking West Central District, combine it with the National Museum of Taiwan Literature area.

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