Chi Mei Museum- 奇美博物館Chi Mei Culture Foundation was established in 1977 under the instructions of Mr. Wen-Long Shi, the founder of Chi Mei Industrial Corporation.

In February 1989, the Chi Mei Museum Preparatory Office was established, and the museum was opened to the public on April 1, 1992 with free admission.

In 2001, a Branch Museum was established in the Tainan Science Park, with displays that focused on the development of technology from primitive hand tools to modern machinery.

The ChiMei Museum, which occupies the fifth to eighth floors of the Chi Mei headquarters building, covers a total area of approximately 6,600 square meters.

The Museum's rich and diverse collections include ancient artifacts, violins crafted by world-famous instrument makers, centuries-old Japanese samurai swords, and classic paintings from the Renaissance and from later artistic movements; the museum also holds a large number of bird and animal specimens.

At ChiMei Museum, visitors can experience the finest masterpieces from different civilizations and cultures without leaving Taiwan, thus offering a broader view of the world.

The objects in the ChiMei Museum’s collections fall into five main categories: Western art, musical instruments, historic artifacts, natural history and arms and armor. 

the Chihkan Tower- 赤崁樓• Begun in 1653, the Chihkan Tower was built by the D

utch to serve as their administrative center, and was originally known as Fort Provintia.

• The walls were once 453 feet around and 36 feet in height. The walls of this stronghold were made of bricks imported from Java, while the walls of buildings were made from rock-hard bricks of oyster shell lime mixed with sugar water and glutinous rice paste.

• Cheng Cheng-kung (Koxinga) renamed this fort "Mansion Bestowed by Heaven" and made it his center of government after driving out the Dutch.

• It was abandoned at the time of Chu Yi-kui's rebellion, and soon was damaged by an earthquake. The external wall and the raised terrace were the only remaining parts. The Haishen Temple and the Wenchang Pavilion on the terrace were built during the late 1800's.

• Among the most extraordinary historic objects at the Chihkan Tower are the stone turtle tablets bestowed by the Cianlong (Qianlong) Emperor (1736~1796) to General Fu Kang-an.

• The inscriptions on the turtles commend Fu Kang-an for suppressing the Lin Shuang-wen rebellion. The inscriptions are in parallel Chinese and Manchu, which makes the turtles quite unusual among tablets in Taiwan.

Qigu Lagoon- 七股潟湖• Neihaizau called by Qigu fishermen is actually Qigu Lagoon.• The current lagoon landscape was formed because Zengwen River (Zeng

wun River) has changed its routs for fours times. So far it is the biggest lagoon in Taiwan.

• This place has abundant ecological resources. It has more than 30 kinds of crabs. Fish, shrimps, shellfishes are even more than 200 kinds. They are how these 20,000 local people keep their means of livelihood.

• We can see the dishes of seafood and fresh oysters everywhere on the nearby streets of Longshan village. People who love seafood should never miss it.

• Moreover, there is abundant bird scenery in lagoon area. You may also arrange of a ecological trip of bird-seeing, touring mangroves and watching crabs.

Caoshan Moon World- 草山月世界• Caoshan Moon World at Zuozhen District, Tainan City is a te

rrain of slate-grey mudstone that consists of sandstone and shale.It connects with the mudstone badland in Neimen District, Tianliao District, and Yanchao District of Kaohsiung City to form a landscape of mostly chalk soil.

• Highly alkaline chalk soil makes it nearly impossible for vegetation to grow here. It feels as hard as rock when it is dry and becomes muddy after rain. The rain washes and cuts the surface of the terrain, leaving geological features such as half-sides of mountains, deep valleys, winding streams.

• Only plants with the greatest vitality are able to survive this badland. Apart from barren land, there are only thorny bamboos and weeds seen within the nearly one thousand hectors of area, thus forming the most typical terrain of moon world.

• On the way from Ganglin Village to Caoshan Moon World, only the peculiar angular landscape and jade green thorny bamboos meet your eyes. As the seasons move through their course and the sun rises and falls, Caoshan Moon World reveals her ever changing faces.

• On the highest spot at an altitude of 308 meters under a clear morning sky, you can appreciate the rising sun and the multilayer changes in clouds and fog.

• In winter, thorny bamboos wither and turn yellow gradually and appear red in the next spring. March and April are the best months to observe such plant discoloration.