Kaohsiung Museum of History — Attraction in Kaohsiung

Free admission. Can't beat that.

A great place to visit while in Kaohsiung if you have no other things to do. However, I think this museum would be even better if they catered more towards foreign visitors.

Although some displays had English translations, many did not. Therefore, it was very difficult to understand the continuity of the history or what was happening because the translations were so far and few in between and so many translations were not available. I guess you can browse the pictures to decipher what was happening.

They had staff members guarding each exhibition. But it would be better if they interacted with the visitors more. I saw one sleeping in a chair. Nothing wrong with that but makes me think why have these individuals there to begin with.

Bathrooms and water station available.

Overall, unless you can speak, understand, read, the local language it was hard to...

Here's the deal, for foreigners. The experience isn't the best. They try to somewhat loosely integrate English on the first floor, but at best, it was too little and too broad.

It's really for the locals to enjoy their heritage, but wouldn't it be great for outsiders to know as well? Considering many foreign powers interacted with Kaohsiung in the past, it's only correct that full English integration is needed. But who am I to say this?

The "volunteers" on each room weren't really doing anything other than sleep on their chair. Bless them senior citizens. They looked so cute too fast asleep. We even tip toed quietly so as not to wake them up.

I would skip this one as a foreigner, unless you have some local with you to help you fully understand the story...

We enjoyed the exhibition of history of Kaohsiung (formerly known as Takao during Japanese colonization). Despite unsavoury history of World War II, the infrastructure that the Japanese built were magnificent. The exhibition shows how the port was built and how it fundamentally changed city of Kaohsiung.

There are plenty interactive panel that allows you to see archives of the culture and history that happened in the city.

There is also a small exhibition on the 228 incident which took place in that same building as the Museum of History was originally a City Hall.

This museum helps you to appreciate...