Pingtung 1936 Tobacco Culture Base

This rambling protected heritage complex, which dates to 1936, was reopened as a Pingtung culture and history learning base in 2021. Spread over 4.2ha, this was formerly the Pingtung Tobacco Factory, closed in 2002. Taiwan’s longflourishing tobacco cultivation and processing industry found it could not compete in the face of international competition after the country’s World Trade Organization entry. The industrial facility was built by the Japanese during their 1895~1945 period of Taiwan colonial rule and originally operated as the Pingtung Branch Tobacco Re-drying Plant.

Under the ongoing Pingtung County Museums Project, it was decided to transform the site into a base telling the Pingtung story through an industrial lens and depicting the Pingtung soul through art. Beyond tobacco, last century Pingtung also had especially strong rice and sugar industries.

Already on-line are the Pingtung Tobacco Factory Museum and Pingtung Hakka Museum. Visitors can take in exhibitions on a coterie of Pingtung-related cultural,

STORIES TOLD historical, and art themes, and can roam through such refurbished areas as the boiler room, repair shop, fumigation room, re-drying area, clocking room, warehouses (where the exhibitions are held), and bunker. Audio guide and AR experiences are available (Chinese).

To come on-line down the road are museums focused on art, local indigenous peoples, and immersive experiences.

CRAFTSMAN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT ( 職人町 )

(08) 733-6435

No. 1-2, Lane 43, Rende Rd., Pingtung City, Pingtung County ( 屏東縣屏東市仁德路 43 巷 1-2 號 ) www.facebook.com/propingtung

CHANGAN NOODLE ( 長安製麵 )

0978-506-978

1F, No. 2, Lane 43, Rende Rd., Pingtung City, Pingtung County ( 屏東縣屏東市仁德路 43 巷 2 號 1 樓 )

10:30am ~ 7:30pm (closed on Mon.) shop.changantw.com (Chinese) www.facebook.com/changantw

PINGTUNG 1936 TOBACCO CULTURE BASE ( 屏菸 1936 文化基地 ) (08) 721-0234 No. 1, Yanchang Rd., Pingtung City, Pingtung County ( 屏東縣屏東市菸廠路 1 號 )

9am ~ 6pm (Fri., Sat., and Sun. until 9pm, closed on Mon.) www.cultural.pthg.gov.tw/pt1936 www.facebook.com/pt1936