Pinglin Tea Museum, New Taipei City — Attraction in New Taipei

Date visited mid July 2025. I thought it is just a boring museum but it turns out to be a surprise for me. The company who designs this must be really good in the sense they create a mixture of modern, ancient and yet very open spacious design. Even the shop, it is so artistic yet modern design that you don’t even know it is a shop. However it may not attract purchase because it displays sample of goods and you have no touch of the products. You could only see the artifacts of the products and price. Only if you are interested, they then take the products out from the storage compartment - unique right? They made their products like artifacts display. Free parking outside the museum but limited space. May have to park across the bridge if parking is full. Wheelchair and stroller friendly. Entrance fee is NT80. Free for new Taipei residents and students and elderly. You can spend easy half day there if you look at each exhibit. If not, at least one hour for browsing. I happen to bump into DIY activity which is available only for this week. I think it is quite nice DIY and hope they can make it as a...

This museum was ok, It had lots of great and interesting tea facts but we arrived when they were reorganising stuff. The grounds are lovely, but didn’t really see much tea growing I guess you need to go for a trek to see that, but no one seemed to understand English to tell us that. I spent a good hour here and by the end of the time felt a nice cuppa tea would be in order! But there is no cafe or place to drink a nice hot cuppa mountain oolong! This is the very first tea museum I’ve ever been to where you can buy a nice cuppa tea. I mean you spend time learning about tea developing a thirst for tea and then nothing!! We did however walked into town for about 15 minutes and grab a local tea at Matsu. Maybe they can collaborate and open a tea cafe there in the future! I’d love to give this place a 5 star but the lack of tea both growing and drinkable and the lack of English given foreigners are charged and locals get in for free is a bit cheeky. Please note I am stating these things in this review to help them improve this place and not to be harsh. I hope to come back in the future when things...

Described as "one of the most extensive tea museums", I was very disappointed by my visit here. The designers of the current exhibition seemed to be focused on how to deliver an extremely limited set of information to people with the attention span of an average 6-year-old. Not that I don't like a modern, interactive take in museums, but for my taste they went too far here. If I want to fry my brain with useless meme content and pseudo-knowledge, I'll go to TikTok or Instagram.

One star for attempting to draw more attention on the climate crisis.

Can recommend this place to groups with children. If you're actually trying to learn something about tea, this is...