National Museum of Taiwan Literature

A museum devoted to Taiwanese literature, housed in a grand Japanese-era public building that once served as the Tainan prefectural hall. Completed in 1916 in a Baroque-influenced style with a mansard roof and columned entrance, the structure is a protected monument. Inside, exhibitions trace writing in Taiwan across Indigenous, classical Chinese, Japanese-colonial, and modern periods. Preserved sections reveal the original brickwork and wartime air-raid shelters, linking the island's literary and architectural histories.