“My museum serves only one purpose : to exist for the public.”
─ CHIMEI Group Founder - Wen-Long Shi 
About CHIMEI Museum
Founder of the CHIMEI Group, Mr. Wen-Long Shi, was very fond of his childhood visits to a local museum that he was inspired to build a museum for everyone to enjoy. The museum was first established and housed in the administration building of the CHIMEI Corporation in 1992, relocated to the Tainan Metropolitan Park in 2014, and reopened in 2015. The museum is here so that people of all ages and social backgrounds can have easy access to Western culture and arts without having to travel abroad.
The collection at CHIMEI Museum consists mainly of Western art, musical instruments, arms and armour, animal taxidermy and fossils, exhibiting approximately 4000 items, which is about one-third of the complete CHIMEI collection. Founder Shi expressed that, “Good works of art are not to be kept just for oneself to enjoy, but to be shared with the public; and a good collection should not reflect just the collector’s personal tastes, but to tailor to common tastes and have enough varieties for everyone to find something to enjoy and appreciate.”
Natural History & Fossils
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Displays animal taxidermy and fossils from all five continents, exhibiting the evolution and variety of nature.
Fine Arts
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Fine Arts
Displays paintings from 13th to 20th century, illustrating the evolution of Western Art history.
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Rodin Gallery
Assembles artworks of Rodin, his teachers, contemporaries, and assistants, presenting artistic environment at the time of Rodin.
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Sculpture Halls
Displays sculptures from Ancient Greco-Roman Period to 20th century, presenting the chronology of history in view.
Musical Instruments
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Musical Instruments
Demonstrates diversity and advancement of musical instruments in various cultures through folk musical instruments, mechanical musical instruments, and our highly appraised “Walk-in Orchestra.”
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Musical Instruments - The Violin Exhibit Room
Displays selected masterpieces from the famous CHIMEI violin collection of various family lines and regions of violin makers.
Arms & Armour
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Exhibits arms and armour to show the advancement of technology and determining winning factors in critical battles.
Painters' Tales of the Low Countries: Flemish and Dutch Paintings of the CHIMEI Collection
This special exhibition is intended to pay homage to all the Netherlandish painting artists in the 16th and 17th centuries by mainly presenting the Netherlandish paintings collected in CHIMEI Museum over these years. From this exhibition, viewers are provided with a window across time and space into not only the working environments, concepts, and strategies of the painters in the creation of their works more than 400 years ago but also the development of diverse painting styles and approaches back then. The most special thing about this exhibition is its incorporation of the fruits from CHIMEI Museum’s interdisciplinary research programs with its partners over recent years. With the combination of art history and scientific testing in these programs, viewers will be able to uncovering clues to the secrets of the painters’ artistic creation process hidden layer by layer underneath the surface of the works.
Past Exhibition
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General Admission NT $200 |
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Discount Ticket NT $150 |
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Free Admission |
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