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Chimei Museum

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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. 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." 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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Chimei Museum
Wenhua Road Section 2, Tainan Chenggong Village

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奇美博物館

Wenhua Road Section 2 66
717 Tainan, Chenggong Village
Taiwan
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財團法人奇美博物館基金會

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