Qualla: Tainan Art Museum https://qualla.com/tainan-art-museum 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/6/tainan-art-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tainan Art Museum https://qualla.com/tainan-art-museum Tainan Art Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/tainan-art-museum/ Photo credit Lchung9779, CC0. Building 2 of the Tainan Art Museum is shaped like a flame tree. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban and his Taiwanese partner Shi Zhao Yong, the contemporary structure takes its form from the Delonix regia, whose scarlet blossoms canopy Tainan's streets every summer. Walk three blocks north to Building 1, and the architecture changes by roughly 90 years. The museum's first building is the earliest surviving police station in Taiwan, an Art Deco structure faced in ochre yellow tiles that once housed the Tainan City Police Department. Together, the two buildings span a century of the island's built history and contain 33 galleries, a children's art center, and Taiwan's first painting restoration facility.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/tainan-art-museum-wp/wsj6-tainan-art-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tainan Art Museum: The Police Station Reborn https://qualla.com/tainan-art-museum/ Photo credit Adece033090, CC BY-SA 4.0. Building 1 started its life under Japanese colonial rule as the Tainan Police Agency. After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, it became the Tainan City Police Department and served that function for decades. The police moved out in 2011, leaving ...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/tainan-art-museum-wp/wsj6-tainan-art-museum-the-police-station-reborn.mp3 0:06 2 full Tainan Art Museum: Shigeru Ban's Flowering Canopy https://qualla.com/tainan-art-museum/ Photo credit 氏子, CC BY-SA 4.0. Building 2 opened to the public on January 27, 2019, though some exhibitions had soft-launched the previous October. The design challenge was to create a contemporary museum building that felt rooted in Tainan rather than parachuted in from Tokyo or New York. Ban and Shi answered...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/j/6/tainan-art-museum-wp/wsj6-tainan-art-museum-shigeru-bans-flowering-canopy.mp3 0:06 3 full Tainan Art Museum: A City's Artistic Identity https://qualla.com/tainan-art-museum/ Photo credit Taiwania Justo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tainan's claim as Taiwan's cultural capital rests on centuries of accumulated heritage: Confucian temples, Dutch forts, Japanese colonial buildings, Qing-era residences. The Tainan Art Museum adds a contemporary layer to that identity. Its founding chairperson, the artist Chen Hu...

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