Museum
National Taiwan Museum
No. 2號, Xiangyang Rd, Liming Village, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan 100
Domed Greek-temple memorial hall with lobby niches that once held statues of the rulers it honored.
This guide to the National Taiwan Museum in Taipei starts with two empty stone niches by the entrance, asking who once stood in them. It traces the building's start in 1913 as a Japanese colonial memorial hall honoring governor general Kodama Gentaro and administrator Goto Shinpei, raised where a Mazu temple once stood. The hall opened beneath its dome in 1915, with Corinthian columns and a Greek temple front. Look closely at what stands in those niches today.
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