Best places: Heritage museums in Taoyuan City, Taiwan

👍👍 Good place to learn the basics of pottery and craft your own items!

Venerable national museum with a variety of exhibits, including history & natural history.

This traditional mansion completed in the 1800s is now a museum with a large garden.

Modern, 7-floor museum with exhibits tracing the history of the local petrochemical industry.

Ancestral home of a 19th-century family of traders, with well-preserved decor & a large courtyard.

Long-running shop selling a wide range of teas, including mountain oolong, plus tea pots & supplies.

Guided tours of a former detention center for political prisoners, with a human rights monument.

👍👍 I have been to Daxi Old Street countless times, but I have overlooked the Japanese-style building complex behind the old street parking lot. I found that this place is more recommended than the old street. The well-preserved and well-planned Japanese-style buildings are hidden in the park, making p...

👍👍 👍It is a very distinctive historic building in Taipei City. The second floor is the Postal Museum. There is a parent-child area and an introduction to postal history. If you are a stamp collector, you must not miss coming here. If you are a post collector, you must come and see it~Recommended👍👍...

Industrial-chic boutique hotel offering 5 custom-configurable rooms themed by local artists.

Revamped, Japanese-style wooden buildings now home to craft workshops & al fresco cafes.

Prominent cultural center, exhibit hall & art gallery dedicated to aboriginal tribal history.

👍👍 Going back to the General Administration of Highways is like going back to my parents’ home. At the Xingfu Highway Museum, I met the former chief, Deputy Director Zhang, who was working as a volunteer interpreter. Deputy Director Zhang was very professional, talkative, and kind. I accompanied him to...

👍👍 It's not far from Daxi Public Office to park and walk in. You can overlook the river valley in the distance. There is a bright and comfortable exhibition space in the museum, as well as a comfortable cafe.

👍 The diverse space next to Tomioka Train Station combines exhibition space with coffee and small desserts. As soon as we entered the restaurant, the clerk enthusiastically explained to us the characteristics of Tomioka and how to use the tourist guide nearby. After a short stop to enjoy warm hand-bre...

🫤 It is a cultural center that introduces the history of early Aboriginal people, but there are no tourists at all. It is a bit lonely and the historical introduction is limited. You can stop by and have a look. There are air-conditioned toilets and drinking machines, and you can rest for a while befo...

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👍👍 I was riding a bicycle through a country road and saw the cultural center advertised on the map. When I actually visited it, the red bricks of the building were intact. This kind of family temple and ancestral hall is really beautiful. The cultural center literally looks like a public attraction, bu...

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