National Taiwan Museum 國立台灣博物館

The National Taiwan Museum 國立台灣博物館is located in Taipei.  It was established in 1908 by the colonial government during Japanese rule in Taiwan and this museum is the oldest one in Taiwan. The colonial government of Japan named it "Taiwan Governor Museum" and the museum was set up to commemorate the inauguration of the North-South Railway. The museum had a collection of over 10,000 items in its initial stages. In 1915, the new building of the museum in Taipei New Park was inaugurated and became one of the major public buildings during Japanese rule.

Under the Nationalist-rule government in 1949, the museum was renamed "Taiwan Provincial Museum" . Since 1999, the museum has been known as "National Taiwan Museum."

The museum has witnessed Taiwan's history and recorded its natural and humanitarian developments. A glimpse of Taiwan's evolution with regard to the fields of earth sciences, humanitarian developments, zoology, and botany can be obtained from visiting the National Taiwan Museum. 

The museum maintains its original scale, with five departments — anthropology, earth sciences, zoology, botany and education. The collection features specimens of Taiwan's indigenous animals and plants as well as cultural artifacts.

This maxicard featuring the façade of the museum came from AKA (17 February 2015) Direct Swap Postcrossing.