National Taiwan Museum

The island's oldest museum, founded in 1908 during Japanese rule and housed in a neoclassical hall with a domed rotunda and Doric columns at the edge of 2-28 Peace Memorial Park. Its collections span Taiwan's natural history, geology, and Indigenous cultures, including artefacts documenting the Austronesian peoples of the island. The building itself is a listed heritage monument, its marble interior and stained glass reflecting early twentieth-century civic ambition. Nearby annexes extend the exhibits into a former land bank.