What It Is

樹火紀念紙博物館 (Suho Memorial Paper Museum) is the first and only museum in Taiwan dedicated to paper. It occupies a four-storey building of approximately 160 ping (~529 m²) on Chang'an East Road in Zhongshan District and operates a working papermaking floor rather than a display-only collection.

The museum exists because of a plane crash. 陳樹火 (Chen Su-ho) founded the Chang Chun Cotton Paper group in Puli, Nantou County, in 1958, and later concluded that Taiwan had no institution promoting paper as a craft or a body of knowledge. He and his wife 賴鳳嬌 (Lai Feng-chiao) were both killed on 2 October 1990 — the day before Mid-Autumn Festival — in the hijacking and runway collision at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, while transiting via Xiamen. The family foundation spent five years executing the plan he had not started, and the museum opened in October 1995 with an inaugural exhibition titled 「擁抱一棵樹」 ("Embrace a Tree").

The building is arranged as a process rather than a gallery: pulp and fibre sources, sheet formation, pressing and drying, and finished paper in application. Visitors form a sheet by hand as part of the standard visit rather than as an add-on for children only.

Location

District: Zhongshan (中山區)
Address: No. 68, Sec. 2, Chang'an East Road, Zhongshan District (台北市中山區長安東路二段68號)
Nearest MRT: Songjiang Nanjing Station (松江南京站, Orange Zhonghe-Xinlu Line / Green Songshan-Xindian Line interchange) — approximately 5 minutes on foot.
Telephone: +886-2-2507-5535

Opening Hours

Monday–Saturday 09:30–16:30. Ticketing closes 16:00; ground floor remains open until 17:00. Closed Sundays. Also closed on New Year's Day, Lunar New Year, Tomb Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.
Annual maintenance closure: 13–30 September 2026. The museum is shut for the full period. Verify before travelling in September.

Third-party listings variously report a Tuesday–Saturday schedule. The museum's own time-and-ticketing page states Monday–Saturday, closed Sundays. Confirm by telephone if visiting on a Monday.

Price Range

  • General admission: NTD 100
  • Individual ticket (bundled): NTD 180
  • Group rate: NTD 160
  • Concession: NTD 50
  • Parent–child package: NTD 300
  • Children under 6: free

Papermaking Sessions

Session times: Tuesday–Friday 14:40; Saturday 10:30 and 14:30. No advance reservation — registration is taken on site, so arrive before the session slot.
  • Standard hand-formed sheet (一般造紙): NTD 200
  • Flower-and-herb inclusion paper (花草手工紙): NTD 280
  • Flower-and-herb paper plus thread-bound handmade book (花草手工紙＋線裝手工書): NTD 370

Specific Items Worth Buying

The sheet you form yourself, NTD 200–370. The flower-and-herb variant embeds botanical material in the sheet during formation. It is dried on site and carried out the same day. The thread-bound book option produces a finished object rather than a loose sheet — the more transportable souvenir of the three.
Puli-milled specialty papers from the museum shop. The retail stock draws on the Chang Chun mill in Nantou — the operating industrial base behind the museum, not a gift-shop supplier. Calligraphy and conservation-grade sheets are sold flat; check thickness and sizing at the counter, as the range is not organised for tourists.

Why It Is Unusual

Taiwan's handmade-paper industry is concentrated in Puli, Nantou — a four-hour round trip from Taipei and the destination most visitors are told to make for if they want papermaking. This museum places the same industry inside Taipei city centre, five minutes from an MRT interchange, and few itineraries register that.

The second anomaly is institutional. Most Taipei museums are public bodies or corporate foundations with a marketing function. This one is a memorial built by a family for two people who died before they could build it, funded by the paper mill they founded, and it has run continuously for over thirty years without becoming a tourist fixture.

The papermaking floor is the reason to go rather than the exhibits. Watching sheet formation performed by staff who do it daily — and doing it once, badly — conveys more about the material than the display cases do.

Verified currently operating: museum's own time-and-ticketing page (時間票價) carrying the 13–30 Sep 2026 maintenance-closure notice; 看雜誌 feature (2025); Open House Taipei programme listing; Klook and Trip.com active ticket inventory. Checked 5 Aug 2026.