Up-close viewing of gold collections and over 140 types of specialty minerals, experiencing the historical culture of East Asian mining, touring traditional Japanese dormitories, enjoying enchanting natural scenery, and recalling the history of gold mining after World War II. The Gold Museum focuses on the historical mining and gold of Jinguashi, integrating the settlement appearance, mining history, local culture, and ecological landscape of the Jinguashi area into an overall planning, thus developing a new look for the area and bringing new vitality. It combines community power to fully preserve the precious natural, mining heritage, landscape characteristics, historical memories, and cultural assets of the Jinguashi area, and endows them with new life. The New Taipei City Gold Museum Visitor Service Center provides visitor information and museum guide-related services and consultations. The Gold Pavilion is divided into two major exhibition areas on the first and second floors. The first floor exhibition theme is ‘The Mountain City under the Golden Light’, showcasing the development of the humanistic history of the mining industry over a century. The second floor, in addition to displaying the representative collection of gold ingots, also plans the ‘Treasures of the Earth’ exhibition theme, totaling about 140 types of rich mineral stones. The Four-Building Complex – well-preserved and complete Japanese-style dormitories, with internal furnishings and living objects that evoke memories of the past, and the red brick black tile exterior forms the characteristics of the mountain city of the Jinguashi area. The Gold Refining Building is a two-story brick building, with a small special exhibition room on the right side of the first floor, which regularly launches theme special exhibitions. The left side of the first floor is the gold refining theater space. The second floor is also a permanent exhibition room, providing the joy of ‘river gold panning’ through multimedia interactive experience. It is famous for the rumor that the Japanese crown prince during the Japanese rule (later known as Emperor Showa) stayed here, with dense surrounding greenery and privacy, and its architectural style belongs to the traditional Japanese study building style, incorporating Western space, forming the popular Sino-Western eclectic style at that time. Opening hours are all year round Monday-Friday 09:30-17:00; all year round Saturday-Sunday 09:30-18:00, closed on the first Monday of each month (if it coincides with a legal holiday, it will be open as usual, and closed the next day). Some holidays in Taiwan are different from those on the mainland: in addition to New Year’s Day, Qingming Festival, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival, February 28th Peace Memorial Day & April 4th Children’s Day & October 10th Xinhai Revolution Memorial Day are also holidays, and will be open as usual, closed the next day. Preferential policies for children: children under 12 years old are free. Taiwan residents: New Taipei City residents, people over 65 years old, students of all levels of schools, people with disabilities and their companions, aborigines over 55 years old, people with low-income household certificates, volunteers with volunteer service honor cards, members of the Taiwan Museum Association are free. Additional explanation for free admission: those who enter free of charge should show relevant proof documents for verification to enjoy the preferential policy of free admission to the museum.
Service facilities include restrooms with accessibility services such as accessible parking lots, accessible entrances, and accessible restrooms. Please note that parking spaces around the park are limited. During holidays and gold events, traffic control will be implemented around the Gold Museum Park. Visitors who drive to the park are advised to park their vehicles at Parking Lot No. 9 or Shui Lan Dong Parking Lot and then take the shuttle bus.
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