Built in 1921, the Museum was originally the “Kazan Hotel,” the best hot spring hotel in the Japanese occpation era. The two-story main building and its annex, Tao-Ran House, with a total area of around 2,500 square meters, stand in a quiet spot in Beitou surrounded by a garden of lush green. It is one of the largest freestanding Japanese all-wood houses dating from the Japanese occupation era in Taiwan.