Taxi Museum

The TAXI Museum (traditional Chinese: 博物館; simplified Chinese: 計程车博物馆; pinyin: Jì chéng chē bówùguǎn) is an automobile museum of taxis in Su'ao, Yilan County, Taiwan. The museum was established in 2019, and it displays several taxis and more than 2,000 taxi-related exhibits. The TAXI Museum is the first museum displays taxis in the world.

History

Lee Chi-Cheng (Chinese:李濟成; pinyin: Lǐ jì chéng), director of the TAXI Museum, began to collect various taxi-related items after bought a toy taxi which the plate number is "NYC-1009" in New York City in 2000.

Collections

NYC Taxi toy

The first collection Lee Chi-Cheng bought when he was traveling in New York City in 2000. The plate number "NYC-1009" is same as his birthday: 9 October.

Taxis

The taxi which clipped by TransAsia Airways Flight 235

A Volkswagen CADDY MAXI taxi which clipped by TransAsia Airways Flight 235 at Huandong Viaduct before the plane crashed into the Keelung River. The taxi protected the driver's and the passenger's lives after it was hit by the plane.

Other collections

• Cycle rickshaw from Taiwan and Indonesia
• Tuk-Tuk
• Taxi displays
• Taximeter
• A 1920s mechanical Taximeter from India
• Model taxis
• Any kinds of taxi-related exhibits, like CDs, books, toys, clothes, etc.

References

External links

• Official website (in Chinese)