National Museum of Natural Science

This museum attaches great importance to providing outstanding service. Since 2022, it has worked with the Taichung City Association for the Deaf to offer tours with a museum guide accompanied by a sign language interpreter on the third Sunday of every month from 10:00-12:00. Please register at the General Service Center before 10:00 on the day of the tour. 

Please click on the link for monthly tour themes for the year and sign language interpretation service request form. You are welcome to register in advance. You may inquire about tour topics from the office for museum guides of the Science Education Department. Tel: (04) 2322-6940 ext. 767.

• Tactile paving
  On the sidewalks around the museum on Boguan Road and Jianxing Road.
• Barrier-free Internet access
  To achieve full accessibility to the Internet, all government websites must meet barrier-free web page design standards. These include web page text in Braille or audio form. Images, pictures, and graphics must be accompanied by text and be accessible via keyboard input. This museum has received barrier-free web page emblem, meaning that all can enjoy its online services.
• Access to exhibition hall content
  1. Provision of exhibition area audio guides and Braille version of the museum’s brief.
     After entering the museum, the Braille version of the museum’s brief can be borrowed from the General Service Center. In it is information about the services and facilities of the museum. If needed, audio guides for the exhibition areas can be borrowed from the digital services counter.
  2. Braille text has been added to explanatory panels in some exhibition galleries and for some special exhibitions.

• Ramps
  The left side of the entrance plaza on Xitun Road; the left side of the Guanqian Road entrance; the sidewalk along the Botanical Garden at the intersection of Xitun Road and Jianxing Road; the sidewalk along the Botanical Garden on Xitun Road near the parking lot entrance; on the left and right sides of the Space Theater; on the left side of the 3-D Theater entrance; on the left side of the main entrance to the Science Center; on both sides of the main entrance to the Life Science Hall.
• Restrooms for persons with physical disabilities
  Restrooms for persons with physical disabilities are located in the Human Cultures Hall and Science Center (B1).
• Wheelchairs
  Visitors in need of a wheelchair can register to borrow one free of charge at the General Service Center.
• Elevators for the disabled
  Elevators for the disabled can be found in the exhibition halls and can reach the upper and lower levels of each exhibition hall. 
• Parking spaces for the disabled
  Parking spaces for the disabled are available in the Boguan Road parking lot, Xitun Road parking lot, and Botanical Garden bus parking lot.