National 228 Memorial Museum
Restored 1930s assembly building memorializing a 1947 uprising and its brutal suppression.
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This guide to the National 228 Memorial Museum in Taipei opens with lawmaker Wang Tian-deng, who once argued for justice inside this very building in 1947, weeks before he disappeared in the massacre now called two two eight. You'll hear how it began with a scuffle over a pack of contraband cigarettes on a Taipei street, and how the anger spread into an island-wide uprising within days. It traces what the building had been before: a stage for Taiwan's first modern art exhibitions, and later the provincial assembly.
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