Taipei is the showcase for Taiwan's artwork.
台北是台灣藝術精品的櫥窗。

Most notably is the National Palace Museum located at the suburb of Yangmingshan National Park.
最有名的是故宮博物院，位在陽明山國家公園邊的市郊。

The museum is the custodian of the rare emperor's collection of Qing Dynasty Imperial Palace from Beijing, attracting 5 million tourists every year.
這博物院是北京故宮清朝皇帝之稀世珍藏品的保管處，每年吸引500萬名遊客參觀。

The museum is ranked number 7 of world's most famous museums. There is a southern branch of National Palace Museum in Chai-yi as well, housing collections of significant historic heritage.
台北故宮博物院名列全球最受歡迎博物館第7名。現在故宮在嘉義有個南部分院，也典藏重要的歷史遺產。

Besides National Palace Museum, there are many museums and cultural parks in Taipei, showcasing the latest creations from local artists.
除了故宮，台北市還有很多現代博物館和文化園區，有展示當地藝術家的最新創作。

For instance, there is the old city hall that became a contemporary art museum. Both Songshan Cultural Park and Hua-shan Creative Park were renovated from old industrial plants to become classic cultural-park examples.
例如舊市府變成當代藝術博物館,而松山和華山文創園區，則從工業廠房翻轉成為文化園區典範。

The Taiwan island became industrialized during the Japanese colonial era. Traces of large-scale factories are palpable in the metropolis.
台灣在日本統治時代開始工業化。在都會區還可以見到大型工廠的遺跡。

With an ever-rising standard of environmental protections and the impact upon globalization, the tobacco industry experienced decrease in demand. The factory production cut in number and even came to a halt.
隨著環境保護標準提高，以及全球化潮流衝擊，菸酒產業需求減少。工廠削減產量甚至停產。

The left-over idling spaces were cleverly transformed into the cultural and creative parks in our article.
剩下的閒置空間被巧妙的轉型為我們故事會提到的文創園區。

Songshan Cultural Park – the old tobacco factory now prohibiting smoking

松山文創園區—古老製菸工廠現正禁菸中

With many bus routes and an underground parking lot, Songshan park is next to the Taipei Dome.
松山文創園區就在台北巨蛋旁邊，有多條公車路線，也有地下停車場。

If you travel by foot, the park is conveniently located between MRT Nanjing Sanmin Station on the green Songshan Line and Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Station on the blue Nangang Line.
如果你走路的話，園區剛好在台北捷運綠線南京三民站和藍線國父紀念館站中間，相當方便。

Occupying an area of 1.2 hectares, Songshan Cultural Park was founded in 1937 during the Japanese colonial era. It was the first modernized cigarette factory in Taiwan.
松山文創園區佔地有1.2公頃，在日治時代的1937年創立。是台灣第一座現代化的捲菸工廠。

It stayed a monopoly run by the government until the market was open for importation of foreign tobacco products in 1987.
一直是國家的獨佔事業，直到1987年開放外國菸品進口。

The rapid decline in demand eventually led to the factory shutdown. After being abandoned for years, it was eventually transformed into a cultural and creative park.
急速的需求下降最後導致停工。荒廢幾年後，轉型成文創園區。

Building constructions inside the park are a mixture of classical features and modern designs. There's the industrial estate built by the cigarette industry during its heyday.
園區內建築，有混合了古典特色以及現代設計。有在菸業興盛時期，菸廠興建的工業建築。

The industrial estate encompasses the cigarette factory, warehouses, baroque-style water garden and distinctive Japanese split office building.
工業建築包括製菸工廠、倉庫群、巴洛克風格的水池花園還有獨一無二的日式「分離派」風格的辦公廳舍。

The modernized cultural and creative building displays various culture and creative goods.
新式的文創大樓，陳列了各項文創商品。

Across from the building, there's the wooden nursery room from back in the days, now remodeled to become a bookstore and cafe. The bookstore was once upon a time the shooting location for a movie. There's an interesting contrast between the contemporary and vintage elements palpable on site.
對面則有當時是全木造的育嬰房，改建成閱樂書店咖啡館。閱樂書店曾經是電影取景的地點。在這裡，可以觀看一些有趣的古今對照。

The area around the park is worth exploring. Walk along Guang-fu North Road toward Bader Road, and there is a large Buddhist supply store as well as numerous Tibetan Buddhist Art stores.
在園區外面附近，也很值得你去探索。沿著光復北路往八德路走，有一家大型的佛教用品,以及好幾家藏傳佛教藝品店。

On Bader Road, there's a famous Sesame Oil Chicken chain store that's always packed with customers at noon. We ordered their tasty signature Sesame Oil Chicken and some noodles. The sesame oil originated from the local has a rich taste to it.
而在八德路上，有一家知名的麻油雞分店，連中午時間都是客人滿滿。我們點了可口的招牌麻油雞和麵線。用當地出產的麻油，口味很濃厚。

Hua-shan Creative Park – the largest liquor factory in Taiwan in the past

華山文創園區—昔日台灣最大製酒工廠

From Songshan Cultural Park, go to MRT Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Station and take the MRT blue line to arrive at Zhongxiao Xinsheng Station or Shan-dao Temple Station. Hua-shan Creative Park is close to both stations.
從松山文創園區到國父紀念館站，搭捷運藍線到忠孝新生站,或者善導寺站。華山文化園區都很靠近這兩個站。

If you happen to drive, go west along Zhongxiao East Road to find the parking lot entrance. The park used to be the largest liquor factory, founded in 1914.
如果開車，沿著忠孝東路往西，在忠孝東路這邊有停車場入口。華山園區曾經是台灣最大的製酒工廠，建造於1914年。

The factory was later shut down due to the open market for foreign liquor importation and unresolved sewage issues.
因為開放酒類進口,以及排放污水問題無法解決,之後關廠。

Hua-shan Creative Park was reconstructed from the liquor factory and warehouses to present you with various creative cultural and art galleries, thus providing artists the ideal atmosphere to showcase their creativity.
華山文創園區是由製酒工廠重建來呈現給您各樣的創新文化和藝術品展覽館,因此能提供藝術家一個理想的氛圍，展現他們的創意。

There are also exhibits for graduation works from art students, and comic characters popular among young people. For instance, there's the Detective Conan 20th anniversary exhibit that we saw.
也有展示藝術系學生的畢業作品展，同時也有青少年喜愛的知名漫畫人物展覽，例如我們也看到的柯南20週年紀念展。

There are family shows during holidays, making it a perfect place to spend quality family time and have a brainstorming holiday weekend.
假日有親子表演，是個全家可以來這裡享受一個舒適、腦力激盪之週末假日完美場所。

There is a clock-like building to the right side of Zhongxiao East Road entrance. This is the tourist service center. You can find out about the history of the liquor factory, products over the years and presentation films inside.
從忠孝東路入口進來右手邊，有個像鐘樓的建築。就是遊客服務中心。裡面你可以看到有酒廠歷史、歷年產品以及影片介紹。

Continuing walking, you can see various exhibit halls. Unlike Songshan Cultural Park that prohibits smoking, although it's no longer a liquor factory, the park has alcoholic beverages available for enjoyment at a tavern.
再往裡面走，有各種展示館。但不像松山文創禁菸，這裡雖然已不是酒廠，園區內有酒館提供酒精飲料，可以來上一杯。

Aside from alcoholic drinks, there are food and freshly made juice provided at the tavern. We got ourselves some tomato juice in order to focus on our tour here:)
除了酒精飲料，酒館也提供食物和現做果汁。就像我們點了番茄汁，才能專注在遊覽:)

There is a newly established Taipei Spot Cinema branch operated by Taiwan Film and Culture Association at the old liquor packaging room. The cinema features mainly documentaries, art films and some mainstream films.
有新設立的台北光點電影院分館，由「台灣電影文化協會」經營管理，地點原來是酒類包裝室。電影院主要放映紀錄片、藝術電影同時也有些院線片。