Category:Hualien Archaeological Museum, Archaeological museum in Shoufeng, Taiwan.
The Hualien Archaeological Museum is an archaeological museum in Shoufeng, Taiwan, housed inside a renovated building from 1984. The collection brings together prehistoric artifacts from across eastern Taiwan, covering a broad span of human activity in the region.
The building originally served as the Fengtien Market, a familiar spot in everyday community life. After a full renovation supported by government cultural funding, it reopened as a museum in 2023.
The museum sits in the village of Shoufeng and displays finds from a jade-working tradition that goes back thousands of years in eastern Taiwan, including tools, pottery, and ritual objects from indigenous communities. These objects give a direct sense of how early people in the region lived and worked.
The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday and is worth planning ahead, as it may be closed on some holidays. Guided tours and educational programs are available and can help make the most of a visit.
One standout object in the collection is a stone trough from the Yuemei site that weighs around 1,240 kilograms, making it one of the heaviest single finds from the region. That trough and a jade burial pendant together inspired the design of the museum's logo.
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