New culture hub combining an art museum and a library opens in Taiwan New culture hub combining an art museum and a library opens in Taiwan

A new cultural space combining an art museum and a public library has just opened in Taiwan‘s second largest city.

Taichung Green Museumbrary, which has been designed as ‘a library in a park and an art museum in a forest’, is found within the city’s 67-hectare Central Park.

Designed through a collaboration between Japanese architectural firm SANAA and Taiwan’s Ricky Liu & Associates Architects + Planners, the building features an outdoor rooftop ‘Culture Forest’ where visitors can admire the views of both the park and the city skyline beyond.

Yi-Hsin Lai, director of Taichung Art Museum (TcAM), said, “The integration of Taichung Art Museum with Taichung Public Library and the park has activated our thinking about the environment, culture, people and the city.

“With the inaugural exhibition and the special commissions, we not only combine artistic dialogues across generations and cultures, but also strive to fulfil the potential of an art museum to enter the everyday life of the city and its residents, as well as to inspire creativity and imagination. We look forward to making this a welcoming space for visitors to create unique memories and experiences of their own.”

Taichung Art Museum’s first exhibition, A Call of All Beings: See you tomorrow, same time, same place, brings together more than 70 artists from more than 20 nations.

Inspired by the natural and urban landscape surrounding the museum, the exhibition aims to ‘trace how human-nature relationships have been imagined and transformed’.

The art museum will also add art commissions to the public spaces of the building on a biennial basis, with the first two being pieces from Haegue Yang (South Korea) and Michael Lin (Taiwan).

Yang’s piece, Liquid Votive – Tree Shade Triad (2025), hangs within the museum’s 27-metre atrium and was inspired by the universal tradition of venerating old trees in South Korea.

Lin’s work, Processed (2025), draws on his family roots in Taichung, making use of patterns and designs appropriated from traditional Taiwanese textiles.

The Taichung Public Library meanwhile is home to more than one million physical books and digital resources.

More information: tcam.museum/en

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