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The Tainan Art Museum occupies the former Tainan Police Station, an Art Deco building of the early 1930s by Umezawa Sutejirō, the architect of the nearby Hayashi Department Store. Restored and opened as a museum in 2018, it shows Taiwanese art from its collection in changing exhibitions and runs an art conservation and research centre.
The Teyang Destroyer Museum is the former US Navy destroyer USS Sarsfield, launched in 1945, which served the Republic of China Navy as Te Yang from 1977 to 2005. Since 2009 it has been moored in Anping Harbour, west of central Tainan, where visitors walk its decks, gun mounts, bridge and crew quarters.
The National Museum of Taiwan History opened in 2011 in Annan District, on Tainan's northern edge about 9 km from the old city centre. Its permanent exhibition traces the island's story from its first Indigenous peoples through Dutch, Spanish, Qing and Japanese rule to modern Taiwan, drawing on a collection of some 60,000 objects; a park with a lake surrounds the building.
The Chimei Museum is a private museum founded in 1992 by Shi Wen-long of the Chi Mei Corporation, housed since 2014 in a domed Neoclassical building in Tainan Metropolitan Park, Rende District, south-east of the city centre. Its collections cover Western painting and sculpture, musical instruments including many violins, arms and armour, and natural history.
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