Every year during the 3rd weekend in September, historic sites offer open admission to help bring these sites’ cultural assets closer to the public. In response to the European Heritage Days, Taiwan started its own National Heritage Day event in 2001, and Tainan City participated in the event every year. After Tainan County merged with Tainan City, the one-day event expanded to become Tainan Cultural Heritage Month. Each year, a theme is chosen as the focus of the heritage month. Each year’s theme showcases the diverse culture of Tainan, Taiwan’s cultural capital. The heritage month draws further inspiration from aspects of daily life in Taiwan, such as nature and environment, foods, clothing, housing, and transportation. Through these relatable themes, we hope that the general public can build a closer relationship with local cultural assets and discover these assets’ footprints in their daily lives.
Through exhibitions, seminars, guided mini tours, puzzle solving games, gift points, and many other fun activities, we teach the public about the cultural assets surrounding them. Furthermore, to foster cultural education in schools, the Cultural Heritage Academy Contest started in 2019. This event not only helps students discover the basic concept of cultural assets on their own—it subverts cultural education’s reputation for seriousness and encourages the future protectors of cultural assets to pass on our cultural inheritance.
![2011 Tainan Cultural Heritage Month: Old Love Tainan](/df_ufiles/df_pics/Images/2011臺南古蹟月-舊.愛臺南.jpg)
![2012 Tainan Cultural Heritage Month: Water and Culture](/df_ufiles/df_pics/Images/2012臺南古蹟月-水.文化.jpg)
![2013 Tainan Cultural Heritage Month: Cultural Assets and Foods](/df_ufiles/df_pics/Images/2013臺南市古蹟月─文資好生活─食在好生活.jpg)
![2014 Tainan Cultural Heritage Month: Seeing Tainan Through the Lens of Food](/df_ufiles/df_pics/Images/2014臺南市文化資產月─由食看臺南,上媠(尚水).jpg)
![2015 Tainan Cultural Heritage Month: Old Memories, New Maps – Houses in Tainan](/df_ufiles/df_pics/Images/2015臺南市文資產月─老記憶新地圖:臺南好厝味.jpg)
![2016 Tainan Cultural Heritage Month: Modern Tainan 1930](/df_ufiles/df_pics/Images/2016臺南市文化資產月─摩登府城1930.jpg)
![2017 Tainan Cultural Heritage Month: Strolling in Tainan](/df_ufiles/df_pics/Images/2017臺南市文化資產月─臺南沓沓仔行.jpg)
![2018 Tainan Cultural Heritage Month: Roaming Around Tainan](/df_ufiles/df_pics/Images/2018臺南市文化資產月─鬥陣踅臺南.jpg)
![2019 Tainan Cultural Heritage Month: Rural Crafts Fun](/df_ufiles/df_pics/Images/2019臺南市文化資產月─民藝童樂.jpg)
![2020 Tainan Cultural Heritage Month: Guji Heritage](/df_ufiles/df_pics/Images/2020全國古蹟日在臺南─咕嘰古蹟.jpg)