Qualla: Museum of Archaeology, Tainan Branch of National Museum of Prehistory https://qualla.com/museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-museum-of-prehistory en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/e/museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-museum-of-prehistory-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Museum of Archaeology, Tainan Branch of National Museum of Prehistory https://qualla.com/museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-museum-of-prehistory Museum of Archaeology, Tainan Branch of National Museum of Prehistory: Introduction https://qualla.com/museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-museum-of-prehistory/ Photo credit Pbdragonwang, CC BY-SA 3.0. They broke ground for a science park and found something far older than semiconductors. During the construction of Southern Taiwan Science Park in Sinshih District, workers uncovered archaeological sites holding evidence of human settlement stretching back thousands of years — dog remains, pig bones, rice seeds, the material traces of lives lived on the southwestern Taiwan plain long before any written history. Rather than clear the sites and build over them, Taiwan committed NT$1.5 billion to creating a museum directly on the ground where these discoveries were made. The Museum of Archaeology opened its doors fully in October 2019, after a soft opening in December 2018, and the Siraya people — among the descendants of the region's earliest known inhabitants — were present at the beginning.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/e/museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-museum-of-prehistory-wp/wsje-museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-mu-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Museum of Archaeology, Tainan Branch of National Museum of Prehistory: What the Ground Gave Up https://qualla.com/museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-museum-of-prehistory/ Photo credit Pbdragonwang, CC BY-SA 3.0. The excavations that preceded the museum's construction revealed multiple archaeological sites layered beneath the Tainan plain. Among them: the Nanguanli Site, which yielded the remains of dogs that once lived alongside prehistoric communities; the Sampauchu Site, where pig bone...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/e/museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-museum-of-prehistory-wp/wsje-museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-mu-what-the-ground-gave-up.mp3 0:06 2 full Museum of Archaeology, Tainan Branch of National Museum of Prehistory: A Museum Built for the Science Age https://qualla.com/museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-museum-of-prehistory/ Photo credit Pbdragonwang, CC BY-SA 3.0. The irony of the museum's location inside a functioning science park is deliberate. The Southern Taiwan Science Park is one of Taiwan's major technology corridors, home to semiconductor fabrication and advanced manufacturing. The Museum of Archaeology, spanning 24,000 square mete...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/e/museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-museum-of-prehistory-wp/wsje-museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-mu-a-museum-built-for-the-science-age.mp3 0:06 3 full Museum of Archaeology, Tainan Branch of National Museum of Prehistory: The Siraya and the Opening Day https://qualla.com/museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-museum-of-prehistory/ Photo credit Pbdragonwang, CC BY-SA 4.0. When Vice Culture Minister Lee Lien-chuan attended the soft opening on 26 December 2018, he was joined by a group of Siraya people — and that presence carried weight. The Siraya are a Taiwanese Plains indigenous people whose ancestral lands cover much of the southwestern Tainan p...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/e/museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-museum-of-prehistory-wp/wsje-museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-mu-the-siraya-and-the-opening-day.mp3 0:06 4 full Museum of Archaeology, Tainan Branch of National Museum of Prehistory: Six Thousand Years on the Tainan Plain https://qualla.com/museum-of-archaeology-tainan-branch-of-national-museum-of-prehistory/ Photo credit 阿文, CC BY-SA 4.0. What the museum ultimately holds is not just a collection of artifacts but an argument: that the Tainan plain has been home to complex human communities for an extraordinarily long time, and that those communities matter to understanding Taiwan's identity. The artifacts displayed...

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