Established in 1933 as Yūraku-kan (有楽館). After the war it was renamed Guomin Theater (國民大戲院). Closed in 1991. Later recognized for its heritage value and renovated into the Hsinchu Image Museum (新竹市影像博物館), which still regularly screens films. There is a small theater museum around back displaying an old air conditioning unit, but the claim that this was the first cniema with air conditioning in Taiwan is suspect.
Map
Heritage Status
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Cultural Heritage Map of Old Theaters in Taiwan (臺灣老戲院文史地圖)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Theaters in Taiwan (台灣老戲院)
- Modernist Architecture in Taiwan (台灣現代主義建築)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.