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.

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.

The literary route map wall, 2026
2026 · Official venue photograph
Venue photograph from a 2026 Tainan City Government news release.
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The museum building, 2014
hongtila (Flickr) · 2014 · Documentary photograph
Photograph by hongtila, 2014. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
Sources
- Tainan City Government release on the redesign ↗ — Redesign details and official venue photographs
- Tainan travel destination page ↗ — Address and visiting information
