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The National Tsing Hua University Museum traces its origins to 2008, when Professors Yang Rur-bin and Fang, Sheng-Ping donated their collections of artifacts. A Preparatory Office followed in 2015, and in 2018 Dr. F. C. Tseng, Chairman of the TSMC Education and Culture Foundation, and his wife funded the construction of the museum building. Construction began in 2021, and in 2022 the NTHU Heritage Museum was formally established as a unit of the University.

Rooted in Tsing Hua and using artifacts as its medium, the Museum aims to be a landmark for the literature and history of East Asia's "Sinographic Cultural Sphere" and a sustainable platform for local heritage. Through regular exhibitions, scholarly collaboration, and educational outreach, it works to advance the transmission, reflection, and innovation of local culture. Its ambition is to stand among the world's leading university collections—alongside the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at UC Berkeley and the Harvard-Yenching Library—and to help shape the interpretation of modern East Asian history.

Designed by Fieldoffice Architects, the Museum is a three-story building of 1,536 square meters. It preserves the main walls of an old three-sided courtyard house (sanheyuan), combined with new structures in a U-shaped layout that houses an audiovisual room, three main exhibition areas, a collection vault, administrative offices, and research spaces—all under climate control maintaining constant temperature and humidity.

Construction broke ground in September 2021 and was completed in October 2024, with the official opening expected in 2026. The University will fund the Museum's basic operations, and we are raising an NT$110 million endowment whose annual yield of roughly 5% will support exhibitions, publications, and educational programs.

Thank you for your generous support, which keeps these stories alive and sustains the Museum for generations to come.