National Taiwan Museum
Established in 1908, the National Taiwan Museum is the oldest museum in Taiwan, offering exhibitions on anthropology, earth sciences, zoology, botany, and history.
Planning your visit
The National Taiwan Museum is the island's oldest, founded in 1908 under Japanese colonial rule as a museum of Taiwan's natural resources — part of the survey and cataloguing that accompanied colonial administration.
The main building, a 1915 neoclassical structure with a dome, stands in 228 Peace Memorial Park, itself named for the 1947 uprising and the massacre and subsequent White Terror that followed, which the adjacent memorial museum addresses.
The collections cover anthropology, earth sciences, zoology, botany and history, with the Indigenous Taiwanese material the most significant — sixteen recognised Austronesian peoples whose ancestors settled the island thousands of years before Han Chinese arrival, and from whom the entire Austronesian expansion across the Pacific is now thought to have begun.
The museum operates across four buildings including the former Land Bank with its dinosaur hall, covered by a combined ticket.
Allow ninety minutes per building. Bookable options include four-museum entry tickets. Current availability is listed below.
Before you book
Where is National Taiwan Museum?
National Taiwan Museum is in Taipei City, Taiwan.
How long should I allow for National Taiwan Museum?
Allow ninety minutes per building. That is the time the collection itself takes at an unhurried pace, before any queue.
Do I need to book National Taiwan Museum in advance?
Tickets can be bought on the door at quiet times, but booking ahead fixes the date and avoids the queue at busy ones. Live availability is shown on this page.
