Located at the Sanying Reclaimed Land, where the Yingge River and Dahan River converge, the New Taipei City Art Museum instantiates a significant step in the New Taipei City Government’s initiative to promote local culture and urban renewal. As the city’s first public art museum serving New Taipei City’s vast territory with its abundant natural resources and population, NTCAM combines urban aesthetics, natural ecology, and regional industrial traits. It connects diverse cultural venues and art communities throughout the city, introduces international art trends, and promotes aesthetic education for all ages, aspiring to become a museum for everyone.

NTCAM focuses on modern and contemporary art, as well as visual culture since the 20th century. With the vision of local roots, global reach, it privileges artistic practice, expands its collection, and advances local research. Through humanistic spirit and interdisciplinary thinking, the museum formulates innovative curatorial strategy, while promoting diverse and inclusive art education. Dedicated to expanding global collaboration, NTCAM forms alliances with international institutions, introducing overseas artistic perspective and talent, and building an international platform for local artists to facilitate artistic practice and exchange.

Revolving around the idea of an “open museum”, NTCAM provides ample artistic and cultural resources to the public. It tailors interactive learning experience to different age groups, encourages lifelong learning, and cultivates public aesthetic literacy. The museum also incorporates sustainability into its management principle, combining eco-friendly architectural designs to develop an arts and culture eco-park. The aim is to establish an example of a green museum, reimagining the city’s aesthetic, ultimately becoming a cultural hub where professionalism and community access merge.

Architect: Kris Yao / Artech
Building height: 3 floors underground, 8 floors above ground

The New Taipei City Art Museum’s architecture consists of two parts: the main building and the ground-level Art Street District. The architectural design integrates humanistic and historical perspectives, while emphasizing the balance between urban structure and nature, encapsulating the dialectical relationship between modernity and humanity. The Art Street District mirrors the fractured formations of the Dahan Riverbed, with the main building spanning across it. The interplay of varying textures and surfaces creates a visually dynamic effect of translucency, allowing the museum space to blend with the urban landscape, fostering a public-friendly aesthetic environment.

Visual Identity | Chi-huan Chuang / WHITEr Design Studio
Brand Colors | YEN Design

To convey the core value of participation and co-creation of this public art museum, the visual identity system repurposes cubes as the basic design element, stacking them to form NTCAM, the museum’s acronym. This embodies the process of public participation and co-creation. The museum has further developed a color system by combining operational keywords with the museum’s architectural facade, natural surroundings, and local culture, in an effort to articulate New Taipei City’s pluralistic spirit and the vision of a museum for all.

• Highlighting the Aesthetics of New Taipei City, Empowering the City’s Development

Leveraging New Taipei City’s bountiful advantages in natural scenery, cultural resources, and the robust energy of its people, NTCAM encourages the creation, exhibition, exchange, and promotion of art, to advance the city’s artistic and cultural ecosystem and economy.

As an innovation engine, NTCAM unites the diverse cultural institutions and the local art community, matchmaking creative industries and art spaces. Through cross-disciplinary collaboration, it is nurturing an aesthetic that uniquely belongs to New Taipei City.

• Cross-disciplinary Art and Culture, a Network of International Exchange

NTCAM shines a spotlight on the legacy of art, by exploring the context of local art and culture development, preserving and extolling significant artistic contributions, and engaging in art research, exhibition and education, as well as international exchanges that extend from New Taipei City to all of Taiwan, Asia and the world.

NTCAM keeps astride the latest global art and culture trends, by fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations, technological applications and cultural dissemination.

• Diverse Learning Experiences, Art Engagement for All Ages

Championing the humanistic values of social inclusiveness and cultural equality, NTCAM provides commonly shared opportunities and a diversity of learning experiences for all, cultivating new talent and facilitating art empowerment in communities.

Opening museum resources to the public, NTCAM connects creativity and culture with the lives of people, developing innovative models of civic engagement and lifelong learning.

• Digital Innovation, the Sustainable Development of Society

NTCAM is run as an open museum, integrating virtual and physical services and incorporating collaborations to stay abreast of global trends in technological development and digital governance.

To embody the ideal of a green museum, NTCAM embraces sustainable development in both policy and practice, creating a future that flourishes in all regards—culture, society, economy and environment.

• Contact Us
• New Taipei City Art Museum
• No. 300, Guanqian Road, Yingge District, New Taipei City
• +886-2-2679-6088