Tainan Travel

Amidst the endless salt fields, two white pyramids stand side by side, looking out over the Qigu Salt Mountains; here stands the Taiwan Salt Museum. Walking into this “fortress” of the salt industry, you can reminisce the scenery of the salt fields with your vision; empathize with the hardships of the salt workers with your hearing; grasp the salt crystals with your sense of touch; imagine the humid salt fields with your sense of smell; taste the salty coarseness of salt crystals with your sense of taste; and fully appreciate the history of the local salt industry with your senses and cognition.

History of Salt: Recreating the Salt Industry

Salt workers toiling under the sun, salt well guard posts, salt-transport trains, salt village clinics, oral stories retold by the local elders and salt workers, the yellowing old photos on display…they all bring the salt field scene of the 1950s and 1960s to life. The site also recreates a simulated scene of a medieval Polish mine, with the small and confined space surrounded by humid air and a solemn ambience, as if traveling through time and space, to truly understand the hard life of salt workers.

Salt Memorial: Salt Life Experience Center
Next to the museum is the Salt Life Experience Center, where you can enjoy a cup of salt coffee to calm your mind and a salt ice popsicle to cool down the summer heat. Look at the colorful salt sealed in bottles and jars, like pigments arranged in a row on the wall! Pick a jar with your own lucky color, and commemorate your unforgettable trip.
Built of Salt and Beauty: Qigu Tourist Service Center                                                               

Not far from the museum, there is another building of breathtaking beauty in this vast land: the Qigu Tourist Service Center. The gray and white concrete building extends its limbs in all directions and blends in perfectly with the salt fields despite its prominence. The stairs are stacked upward, as if holding up the blue sky. This spectacular interlacing scene has been captured in countless visitors' photo albums.