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A new cultural heavyweight has landed in Taiwan’s second-largest city. Taichung Green Museumbrary has just opened within the city’s sprawling Central Park, bringing together an art museum and public library under one striking roof.
Designed by Japanese firm SANAA in collaboration with Ricky Liu & Associates Architects + Planners, the building is envisioned as “a library in a park and an art museum in a forest”. Dual-layer façades wrapped in aluminium mesh filter light and breeze, while shaded plazas ripple gently into the surrounding greenery. Up on the rooftop “Culture Forest”, visitors are treated to sweeping views of the park and Taichung’s skyline.
The opening exhibition, A Call of All Beings: See you tomorrow, same time, same place (Dec 13, 2025 to Apr 12, 2026), sets the tone. Drawing from the site’s layered past – once a military base and airport – the show explores entangled relationships between humans, animals, plants and their environments. It’s curated by an international team and brings together more than 70 artists from over 20 nations. The exhibition unfolds across five thematic sections, with works spilling beyond galleries into public spaces throughout the Museumbrary.
The museum is also committing to long-term public art, with new commissions set to be added to its shared spaces every two years. Leading the inaugural line-up are works by South Korean artist Haegue Yang and Taiwanese artist Michael Lin, both created specifically for the building.
Yang’s Liquid Votive – Tree Shade Triad (2025) draws on South Korea's tradition of venerating ancient trees. It hangs in the museum's 27-metre-high atrium. Lin’s Processed (2025) looks closer to home, reworking motifs from traditional Taiwanese textiles inspired by his family roots in Taichung. Together, the two works signal how art at the Green Museumbrary will quietly shape how visitors move, pause, and inhabit the space.
For bookworms, the Taichung Public Library is home to over one million physical books and digital resources.