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The 10 Best Specialty Museums in New Taipei, Taiwan
Visiting Taipei? Don't limit your sightseeing to the city center. Also known as New Taipei City, Xinbei covers more than 2000 square kilometers of Taiwan, including coastlines, hot springs, temples, historic landmarks and more. At Yeliu Coast, strange and fascinating rock formations rise from the rocky coastline. The Lin Ben-Yuan Family Abode and Garden is a tranquil place featuring graceful Chinese landscaping.
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1. 淡水一滴水紀念館
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
2. New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum
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4.5 based on 197 reviews
The first modern ceramics museum in the nation, The construction of the New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum was first proposed in 1988 and opened to the public on November 26, 2000. In twelve years, it has become the leading county museum in Taiwan and the first professional museum wholly dedicated to ceramics.
Reviewed By liucy752 - Taipei, Taiwan
A modern and well designed ceramics-themed museum. The museum displays the techniques used for pottery, the history of ceramics, and fine ceramics used in computers, telephones, and other high-techs. The contents of the exhibitions cover a wide range of topics, including cultures, arts and sciences. There are also collections of ceramic artworks from Taiwan and other countries. The architecture of the Museum itself is a masterpiece. A very nice museum, suitable for all ages.
3. Zi Jin Cheng Museum
4. Jing Mei Human Rights Memoriam Cultural Park
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4.5 based on 15 reviews
Reviewed By HughGB100
This museum in New Taipei City is strongly recommended as a counter-balance to the buzz of modern Taipei, the wonders of the National Palace Museum and the lovely parks, to give you an idea of the brutal nature of Taiwan’s past and how far things have changed since the end the “White Terror” – the period of martial law which ended as recently as 1987. The Museum is in what used to be a detention centre. The guided or audio tours take you to the rooms where political detainees were tried; and you can see just how prisoners were kept and how they were forced to live. The displays are excellent, and you get a vivid sense of the hardships suffered by so many Taiwanese (and non-Taiwanese nationals) who for some reason were suspected by the ruling regime. If you are as lucky as I was, you may even get to talk to a former detainee; they can explain vividly the hardships and sense of hopelessness felt by so many inmates. (If you want some context before you visit but find history books heavy going, you might read Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan, a story of a family whose father was detained. Green Island housed another detention centre, which you can also visit.)
5. Houtong Coal-Mine Ecological Park
6. Taiwan's Socks Museum
7. Wulai Forestry Life Museum
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4.5 based on 11 reviews
The Wulai Forestry Life Museum, located next to the bus ticket office, is a museum opened by the Forestry Bureau after five years of preparation. The museum displays in detail the development of forestry around Wulai. If you’re not familiar with this essential part of the historical origins of Wulai logging tramways and forestry development, this is the place to go. Besides introducing the local forestry culture through fun exhibition panels, the museum also holds woodcraft DIY workshops from time to time, which is a fun course which adults and children like very much!
