Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei
Red-brick former colonial school and city hall turned museum devoted entirely to contemporary art.
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This guide to the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei follows the building through three lives: opened in 1921 as a Japanese colonial elementary school, converted into Taipei's city hall after 1945, and reborn in 2001 as the country's first museum devoted to contemporary art. Along the way you'll hear about the red-brick gate, the bell tower and the corridors that once carried classroom lessons and city paperwork alike. It also touches on a 2023 Banksy work that made headlines here for how it met its end.
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