Chimei Museum

Taiwan’s largest private museum and one of the world’s largest non-public Western art collections, established by Chi Mei Industrial founder Hsu Wen-lung (許文龍). The original gallery opened in 1992 on the upper floors of the Chi Mei headquarters in Rende, but a new campus inside Tainan Metropolitan Park was donated to the city in 2012 and opened to visitors in January 2015. The holdings include the world’s largest violin collection, one of the most complete arms and armour collections in Asia, and over 13,000 paintings and sculptures spanning Renaissance to post-Impressionist work.