National Taiwan Museum Nanmen Park

Once an important camphor factory in the world

Built in 1899. Its predecessor was the Taipei Nanmen Factory of the Monopoly Bureau, Taiwan Government-General during the Japanese occupation era. It was the only camphor and opium processing factory ...

Museum combines architecture with exhibits

Nanmen Park is attached to the National Taiwan Museum. The museum combines period architecture with exhibits, dating from the Japanese colonial era (1895-1945). Opium and camphor were important prod...

Relics from a different era

Taiwan was a Japanese colony from 1895 to 1945. Its economy was very different from today. Taiwan's main industries were camphor and opium production. The main source of government revenues were taxe...

NANMENG historical visit

Site seeing and having a good family outing at this small town. This structure shall constructed during Qing dynasty.

Nice little exhibit

Very small exhibit, but pleasant space and interesting info documenting camphor production from Japanese colonial era.