The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts' sculpture grounds, with an old market turned arts space across the street
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The main entrance of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts faces Wuquan West Road Section 1, and 48 sculptures are spread across its roughly 10-hectare grounds. Across the street, Zhongxin Market has been a retail market since the 1960s; after the surrounding land was expropriated to build the museum and the Dadun Cultural Center, the market gradually declined, and it is now a venue where artists show and perform their work. Heading south from the museum, Art Museum Parkway runs to the Liuchuan River, about 0.9 kilometers in all. The red-brick sidewalks along the parkway are lined mainly with international restaurants, interspersed with clothing shops, galleries, and home furnishing stores. Ducking into the lanes of Tuku Village, you'll find art spaces, specialty shops, and small eateries scattered among the homes.
Sidewalks here rank 3rd out of 47 neighborhoods in Taichung, and the neighborhood environment ranks 10th — it's a pleasant place for a walk. Both the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and the Dadun Cultural Center are in the neighborhood, so you can walk to exhibitions. For trains, TRA Wuquan Station sits along the southern edge of the neighborhood. Across Zhongming South Road, on the neighborhood's west side, is Dazhong Village, home to three parks — Lü 18 Park, Guangming Park, and Mayuantou Children's Park — and trees have also been planted along the banks of Mayuantou Creek to the west.
The nearest MRT station, Nantun Station, is about 840 meters from the neighborhood boundary, and public transit here ranks 20th. Most people rely on buses, with stops at the Dadun Cultural Center and the Art Museum (Wuquan West Road). There are almost no streets in the area around the museum grounds — homes are concentrated south of Wuquan West Road and west of Zhongming South Road, so the livable area is smaller than it looks on the map.
Tuku Village, within the neighborhood, takes its name from the mud-brick granaries local farming families once used to store rice. Dazhong Village to the west was also part of "Tukuzai" during the Qing dynasty, and wasn't split off from Tuku Village until 2002; Deshun Temple in the village was founded around 1875 with incense divided from Fushun Temple in Longjing. The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts opened in 1988, when it was called the Taiwan Provincial Museum of Fine Arts. It closed for renovation in 1998, and after the provincial government was streamlined in 1999 it took on its current name; that same year it suffered damage in the 921 Earthquake, and didn't reopen until July 2004. The Calligraphy Greenway runs down from the National Museum of Natural Science, and its southern end connects to the museum, with Art Museum Parkway continuing on further south. One section of Art Museum Parkway was originally the abandoned lower course of Tuku Creek, which was covered over and filled in to become the parkway.
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