Taipei 228 Memorial Museum (Taipei Air Raid Exhibition Venue)
台北二二八紀念館(台北大空襲展示施設)

The Taipei 228 Memorial Museum, housed in a former Japanese-era radio broadcasting station in 228 Peace Memorial Park, has hosted the main public exhibitions commemorating the 1945 Taipei Air Raid. In 2007 the Taipei City Government published the first book dedicated to the air raid to accompany an exhibition here. The 70th anniversary traveling exhibition of 144 US National Archives photographs was also displayed here in 2015.
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The Taipei 228 Memorial Museum (台北二二八紀念館) is located within the 228 Peace Memorial Park (二二八和平紀念公園), formerly known as Taipei New Park (台北新公園), in the Zhongzheng District of Taipei. The museum building itself is a historical structure — it was built in 1930 as the studio of the Taipei Broadcasting Station (台北放送局) during the Japanese colonial period.
While the museum's permanent exhibitions focus on the February 28 Incident of 1947, it has hosted the principal public exhibitions commemorating the May 31, 1945 Taipei Air Raid — an event that, unlike the 228 Incident, has no dedicated memorial of its own.
In 2007, the Taipei City Government's Department of Cultural Affairs published the first book pertaining specifically to the Taipei Air Raid, coinciding with an exhibition at this museum. This marked a turning point in public awareness of the event, which had been largely absent from both history education and public discourse for over six decades.
In 2015, marking the 70th anniversary of the raid, the Taiwan Association of University Professors (TAUP) organized a major traveling exhibition featuring 144 photographs obtained from the United States National Archives. The exhibition was displayed at the 228 Memorial Museum through June 14, 2015, before moving to Aletheia University in Tamsui (July 1 - August 30, 2015), with plans to travel throughout Taiwan with localized modifications reflecting the destruction experienced in each city.
The park (then Taihoku Park) lay within the bombed government district and was among the places damaged in the raid. Photographs taken after the bombing show large bomb craters along the nearby streets of Chongqing South Road and Hengyang Road, across from the park. The park is bounded by Gongyuan Road, Xiangyang Road, Huaining Road, and Ketagalan Boulevard.
On May 31, 2014, a civic group organized a commemorative action on Huaining Street near the Presidential Office, with approximately 50 participants dressed in black conducting Atayal tribal rituals to honor the air raid victims — one of the few recorded public remembrance activities for the event.
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- 臺北大空襲 - 維基百科Website
- Taipei Air Raid: a forgotten tragedy - Taipei TimesArticle
- 臺北二二八紀念館 - 維基百科Website