Leisurely Literature: An Exhibition on Travel Literature
An exhibition on travel literature at the National Museum of Taiwan Literature in Tainan, reading Taiwan's places and journeys through its writers.
Season · 142 events
Autumn brings the crowds back outdoors: Mid-Autumn, the Sun Moon Lake fireworks and swimming carnival season, silver grass on the Caoling trail, hot spring seasons opening, and the densest run of marathons and arts festivals of the year.

An exhibition on travel literature at the National Museum of Taiwan Literature in Tainan, reading Taiwan's places and journeys through its writers.
Little Kinmen's taro season brings taro digging, games, markets and taro dishes to Lieyu Township through the autumn.
A season of open-air concerts in the canyon scenery of Zengwen Reservoir, running into early November 2026.
The Zhiben spring area's year round season under the national Taiwan Good Soup programme.
The national hot spring season record: a Tourism Administration carnival spanning 19 spring areas to June 2027.
Night illuminations light up Taichung's mountain resort towns of Lishan and Guguan through the autumn and winter season.
A long run National Palace Museum exhibition on how its collection took shape around 1950, open throughout the season.
Weeks of lakeside concerts capped by fireworks over Sun Moon Lake, closing 14 November 2026.
A retrospective of video and kinetic artist Wang Yahui at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, running to 3 January 2027.
An exhibition of oversize masterpiece scrolls at the National Palace Museum, running to 27 December 2026.
A calligraphy exhibition at the National Palace Museum, running to 27 December 2026.
A season-long birdwatching marathon on the southwest coast, timed to the arrival of black-faced spoonbills and other winter migrants.
Japanese media artist Daito Manabe's first major overseas solo exhibition, with new immersive works created for the Taichung Art Museum's double-height galleries.
The British artist's first major solo exhibition in Asia brings more than seventy works on everyday objects to the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.
A Taiwan and Korea group exhibition on life in super-aged societies, looking at caregiving networks and collective memory.
A National Palace Museum Southern Branch exhibition tracing the art that crossed the Himalaya region over centuries of exchange.
The Southern Branch's annual Asian Art Festival takes a Himalayan theme for 2026, with a month of programmes around the special exhibition.
An exhibition on how the National Palace Museum conserves and restores its treasures, running to 3 January 2027.
A National Palace Museum exhibition on how to look at Chinese painting, running to 27 December 2026.
The third 2026 rotation of the National Palace Museum's national treasures display, running to 27 December 2026.
A National Museum of History exhibition on art exchanges between Taiwan and Japan, running to 22 November 2026.
Yilan County's autumn and winter hot spring season in Jiaoxi, running from mid October 2026 to the end of February 2027.
Paintings and rare documents by Li Mei-shu, Yang San-lang and Li Shih-chiao, three pioneers of modern art in Taiwan with deep roots in New Taipei.
Hualien County's hot spring festival linking the Ruisui and Antong spring areas for a month of autumn weekends.
A solo exhibition devoted to Lim Kac-keong (Lin Ke-gong), presented as the companion show to Beyond the Canvas at the New Taipei City Art Museum.
Taichung's citywide shopping festival runs from late October to Christmas Day 2026, with receipt lotteries and merchant promotions across the city.
A winter season festival around the purple crow butterflies that overwinter in the valleys of Maolin National Scenic Area.
The silver grass season on the Caoling Historic Trail, with weekend shuttles, markets and period costume experiences.
Fuli Township's autumn harvest music festival, two days of concerts and a farmers market under Sixty Stone Mountain.
Hualien's stone sculpture festival, with an open air creation camp at NilaI Plaza and exhibitions running into January.
A major survey of the late composer and artist Ryuichi Sakamoto's installation practice from the 2000s onward, built around seven large-scale installations.
Vast patterned flower carpets bloom across the Xinshe plateau for Taichung's annual flower carpet festival.
Taiwan's national coffee festival returns to Gukeng in Yunlin, gathering coffee farmers, roasters and brands from across Taiwan.
Taiwan's flagship Indigenous music festival takes over Taitung Forest Park for a weekend.
Japanese singer-songwriter Vaundy plays two nights at Taipei Arena, 31 October and 1 November 2026, on his ASIA ARENA TOUR 2026 "HORO".
An elite focused marathon linking Chiayi City's Lantan and Renyitan reservoirs.
Middle-distance triathlon at Taiwan's southern tip, with a sea swim and a coastal bike and run in Kenting.
Meinong's Hakka farming town celebrates its white jade radish and bean harvest with field picking, markets and cooking events.
A point-to-point island-hopping marathon across the Penghu archipelago, finishing in Magong.
Full, half and shorter races lap the famous Sun Moon Lake shoreline from the Xiangshan Visitor Center.
The full list is on the events calendar, filterable by month and region.