The National Taiwan Museum (NTM) has four branches in Taipei, all of which are reuse of historical sites and aim to showcase Taiwan’s natural history, cultural history, and modernity. The Main Building of NTM, founded in 1915, focuses on Taiwan natural history and cultural history. Natural History Branch, founded in 1933 as a bank, focuses on Taiwan prehistoric creatures and economic history. Nanmen Branch, founded in 1915 as a camphor factory, focuses on Taiwan industrial history. The last one, Railway Department Park, founded in 1920 and was a railway department under Japanese colonial rule, focuses on Taiwan’s modernity. The new branch, Taiwan Institute of Contemporary Architecture, which will focus on Taiwan architecture, is expected to open in 2027. It was founded in 1909 and it used to be a railcar repair factory called Taipei Railway Workshop.
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- Institutional Member
- Asia / Oceania, Institutional
Institutional Member
National Taiwan Museum (NTM)
Collection
NTM has 143,833 works in its collection, including Taiwan’s prehistoric, indigenous, historical and folk artifacts, ores, fossils, and specimens. In addition, NTM has 119,921 drawings, pictures, and documents that record Taiwan modern architecture and railway system from the 1950s to 1990s. They are collected from architects, their families, relative institutions, and enterprises since 2006. The digitalized pieces are 124,042 in total. These drawings show the changing progress of urbanization and architectural system in Taiwan after World War II. These historic materials include 60 architects’ works in Taiwan, including famous Wang Da-hong, Chen Jen-ho, Han Pao-teh, Hsiu Tse-lan, Wu Ming-shu, Gottfried Böhm, Justus Dahinden, and Kenzo Tange.Library Holdings
NTM has a library that is for museum employees only.Other Members:
