National Taiwan Museum of History Introduction
The National Museum of Taiwan History is primarily divided into three main buildings: the Museum of Artifacts, the Historic Building, and the Document Building. 1. Museum of Artifacts: Located at the center of the museum park, it features European Renaissance-style architecture and showcases folk artifacts related to the daily life, clothing, housing, transportation, education, entertainment, religious beliefs, and local customs of the ancestors. The permanent exhibition room displays the folk culture of Taiwanese commoners, while the special exhibition room holds diverse exhibitions periodically. Since September 2017, a new service for visually impaired visitors has been added, including braille labels in each permanent exhibition room, three-dimensional colored braille focus artifacts, and exhibits with braille book summaries for reading. 2. Historic Building: The first floor includes a briefing room, a sales section, a service desk, a display area for topographical maps of Taiwan, and exhibition rooms for prehistoric archaeological sites, the Pingpu people, and indigenous peoples. The second floor contains exhibition rooms for the Dutch and Spanish eras, the Qing Dynasty period, and a special exhibition room. The third floor features exhibition rooms for the Japanese occupation and post-World War II periods, significant figures and events in Taiwanese history, and a model exhibition area for national historic sites, systematically presenting the relics of life from Taiwan’s prehistoric period and the development of Taiwan through the times. The fourth floor houses a library. For visually impaired friends, braille books are provided for reading on each floor (location detailed on the floor plan), and there are also braille descriptions on the signage in each exhibition area. 3. The Document Building is located to the right of the entrance to the Taiwan History and Cultural Park, officially completed and opened in 1992. It has four floors above ground and one basement level, with a total floor area of approximately 1,700 ping.
