臺南都會公園奇美博物館 | |
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| Established | 1992 |
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| Location | No. 66, Sec. 2, Wenhua Rd., Rende, Tainan 71755, Taiwan |
| Coordinates | 22°56′4.53″N 120°13′33.23″E / 22.9345917°N 120.2258972°E |
| Type | Museum |
| Collection size | 12,000 (2016)[1] |
| Visitors | 1.5 million (2015)[2] |
| Founder | Shi Wen-long[1] |
| Director | Ling-Ling Kuo |
| Architect | Tsai Yi-cheng (蔡宜璋)[1] |
| Website | www.chimeimuseum.org |
The Chimei Museum (Chinese: 奇美博物館; pinyin: Qíměi Bówùguǎn; Wade–Giles: Chʻi²-mei³ Po²-wu⁴-kuan³) is a private museum established in 1992 by Shi Wen-long of Chi Mei Corporation in Rende District, Tainan, Taiwan. The museum's collection is divided into five categories: Fine arts (including painting, sculpture, decorative arts and period furniture); Musical instruments; Natural history and fossils; Arms and armor; Antiquities and artifacts. The museum is known for housing the world's largest violin collection and for its significant collections of ancient weapons and sculptures.[3][4] Forbes magazine, in its February 1996 article on private collectors in Asia, called the Chimei Museum "one of the world's most surprising art collections."[5] The museum moved to its current venue on Wenhua Road in 2014, and it is open to the public except on designated days.
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- ^ Chi-Mei Museum, Forbes, February 1996.