If there is one place first-time visitors in Taiwan must visit, then its the Discovery Center of Taipei. It's the best place to learn many things about the capital of this country. From its early history up to this modern times, the museum is kept up to date to meet the changing needs of the visitors wishing to know more about Taipei.
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| The Discovery Center of Taipei is housed inside the building of Taipei City Hall |
Admission is free and if you love museums you will never get bored! Discovery Center of Taipei is composed of four floors with the 3rd floor and the 4th floor as the main exhibit area. At the entrance, you will be greeted with video clips about Taipei City.
Inside the lobby was a topological map of Taipei Basin. The map shows the mountains and the different rivers flowing out into the Taiwan Strait and I was really amazed. Just imagine the so-called Taipei Basin to be a former lake that dried up through time and is now a metropolis.
The 3rd floor is the City Discovery Hall. It contains exhibits about the history of Taipei's major roads, Taipei as an ecological city as well as Taipei as the cultural capital Taiwan. What makes visiting the Discovery Center of Taipei fun is that the displays are interactive! You can play games, ride a bike to view pictures and even received a ticket containing a future poem. This is what is printed in my ticket ”Sitting stiffly in isolation, I spent solemn nights in darkness. Suddenly the good fortune comes, it directs me to a wonderful life with joy”. There is also a video clip that will activate once it detects that you are standing within the display area. After exploring the 3rd floor, I got hungry and went outside to find a shaded bench, ate my sandwich and observed the magnificent Taipei 101 above.
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| Dialogue with Time Hall |
I went back inside after my snacks and I continued on the 4th floor. The area is called the 'Dialogue with Time' Hall and I learned more about the history of Taiwan. I know the fact that Taiwan was once a colony of Japan for 50 years but I didn't know that there are too many Japanese experts who served as the 'fathers' of Taiwanese society. The Philippines was also a colony of the Japanese Empire but it was only during the World War II. If the Philippines was colonized by Japan for five decades like Taiwan, Filipinos could have inherited the good values of the Japanese people and my country might be a nation with law-abiding citizens.
One of the interesting places to see is the Discovery Theater which is also located on the 4th floor. The cinema boasts a 360-degree video screen and it has a rotating platform so you can see what is happening all around. At first, I thought that the screen was the one rotating but then I realized that the audience were the ones moving! Because of the rotating platform, I felt dizzy after watching the show. The ten to fifteen minute film was about Taipei City life. It showed what happens on the streets of Taipei from the time you wake up until you go to bed.
I went down to the 2nd floor and it was the Special Exhibits Hall. The exhibits there change regularly so better check out this place to have a unique experience with the museum. While going around the 2nd floor, I heard a familiar language in my ears and from that point, I knew that there were other Filipinos who visited the museum. I didn't talk to them and I just pretend that I was another foreign tourist. It took me three hours to explore the Discovery Center of Taipei. I learned a lot of things and most especially I made a lot of discoveries.
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Sakura Series - Taiwan
2025 Forecast
Taipei 101 first flowers
Tianyuan Palace backyard
Taipei Flower Test Center
Pingjing St. Lane 42
Broadwood Park
Sunshine Sports Park kawazu sakura
Wuling Farm (武陵農場)
SYS kawazu sakura
Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village
CKS Memorial Hall
Shibafen Yoshino Sakura
Hope River
Dongfang Temple
Tianyuan Palace
Neicou Stream Trail
Orange Garden Cafe
Yangming Park Visitor Information Center
Yangming Park Service Center Bus Stop
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Qianshan Park
Zhongshan Hall Entrance
Tenglong Sakura Farm
Flower Test Center Shōwa Sakura
Neihu Creek Trail
Shulin Land Office
Xióng Kōng Cherry Blossom Forest
Lung Yen Sakura Forest
Yangming Park cherry stream
Yangming Park fountain
CKS Memorial Hall Tairyō sakura
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CKS Memorial Hall yaesakura
Loving Farm
Yong Long Farm
Zhongbaling Sakura Road
Sun Link Sea
Tai'an Police Station
Cherry Hill Slope
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Taipei 101
Kāng Gào Kēng Creek
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Broadwood Park
Tianyuan Palace backyard
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Alishan Ranger Station
Alishan House
Alishan Police Station
Alishan Forest Railway
Alishan Station
Alishan Entrance
Alishan Gou Hotel
Alishan Magnolia Garden
Wulai tour
Wun Chang Elementary School
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Sanzhi Sansei Trail
Sakura Series - Taiwan
Nei Cuo Stream
Orange Garden Cafe
Sansei Trail
Tenglong Sakura Farm
Yangming Park Cherry Stream
Yangming Park Fountain
Flower Test Center
Broadwood Park
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Yinghua Park
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Yangmingshan Visitor Center
Taipei 101
Tianyuan Palace backyard
Sakura Series - Japan
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Hōryū-ji Temple
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Tokyo Tech Ookayama Campus
Sumida River
Tsuruma Park
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Maple Series
Taipei Aowanda
Shimen Dam
Alishan
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Shanlinxi
Taoyuan Valley Garden
Fushoushan Farm
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Tulips Festival
2018 Taipei Lantern Festival
City of Azaleas
Linji Huguo Temple
Nanjichang Night Market
Gudetama Chef restaurant
Dalongdong Bao'an Temple
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Ningxia Night Market
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Discovery Center of Taipei
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Opium Fen-Yuan
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MRT Monopoly Game
Winter city tour
Zhicheng Park
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Art museums
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Summer desserts
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Qixingshan hiking
2015 Calla lily
2016 Calla lily
Beitou tour
Beitou-Zhuzihu tour
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Puppet Museum
Fantasy Ice World
2016 Bread Show
Strawberry picking
2015 Rose Garden
Modern Toilet
Shilin Night Market
NASA Exhibit
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Longshan Temple
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Maokong Gondola
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Taipei 101 day visit
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Tiger Mountain
Din Tai Fung
Taipei Story House
2014 Flower Show
Chrysanthemum Show
Miramar Ferris wheel
Miniatures Museum
Archery
1600 Pandas
Wulaoguo hot pot
Upside Down House
2016 101 Fireworks
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Shifen Waterfall
2017 Sand Sculpture
Dragon Caves
New Taipei tour
2016 Kite Festival
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Bitou Cape
2016 Sand Sculpture
2015 Christmasland
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Jiufen foodtrip
Guanyinshan hike
Yehliu Ocean World
2014 Kite Festival
Pingxi Rail tour
Jinguashi tour
Vigor Kobo Pineapple
British Consulate
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Paragliding
2014 Christmasland
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firefly watching
Yingge Ceramics Street
Jiufen tour
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