National Museum of Taiwan History

Taiwan’s national history museum and the country’s largest devoted to the island’s past. Its location in former marshland in Annan, Tainan, was first proposed by President Lee Teng-hui in 1992 and absorbed by the central government in 1999 after the dissolution of Taiwan Province. The first buildings broke ground in 2003 and the museum opened to the public in October 2011 as part of the ROC centennial commemorations, with a permanent collection of around 60,000 artifacts covering Indigenous, Dutch, Spanish, Qing, British, and Japanese chapters of Taiwanese history.