Taiwan is located at the area where the subtropical and tropical zones meet, with the Tropic of Cancer cutting across central Taiwan, and with the Central Mountain Range running from the north of the island to the south. Temperature decreases as elevation rises. You get to see tropical plants in Hengchun Peninsula as well as plants grown in frigid zone in Alishan (Mount Ali) and Yushan (Mount Jade) in a day. The extraordinary diversity enriches people’s cultural literacy and broadens their horizons.

Founded in 1984, Hwataoyao is located at the west hillside of Huoyan Mountain in Yuanli Township, Miaoli County. This towering building overlooks the alluvial fan of Da'an River at Tieh-Chen Mountain, Dajia District in Taichung. Its total area of 10 hectares distributes along the valley. Hwataoyao partners with the Agricultural Research and Extension Station, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, in Miaoli, Taoyuan, and Hualien, to plant over 600 native plants and folk plants at different elevations in the park.

Standing amidst winding mountain paths, Hwataoyao is a facility that blends pottery, kiln, landscaping, and poetry into ecological conservation, serving as a human-centric kiln that values culture, art, tourism, and environmental protection.

Visited by 600,000 people in the past three decades, Hwataoyao is a local cultural museum approved by the Ministry of Culture, offering an artist-in-residence program. Its guided tour received the Cultural & Creative Award granted by the Ministry of Culture for its innovative service in October 2013.

Hwataoyao started out as a ceramic art studio producing vases and has a 30 years of history as of today. Visitors are attracted here not only to visit a garden that houses kilns, pavilions, and terraces, but also to appreciate the local aesthetics embodying the cultural diversity on this island.

ADDRESS:

No.31, Nanshi, Yuanli Township, Miaoli County 358, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

HOW TO GET THERE:

Take taxi or bus from Yuanli Station (Taiwan Railways)

TEL: 

037-743611

OPENING HOURS:

9:30-16:00 (Closed on Monday)

ADMISSION FEE:

Advanced reservation by phone is required (Ticket is required for entrance. Additional fee will be charged for experience activities)

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EXHIBITION INFORMATION:

For this exhibition, curator Ms. Chen Mei-hua brings her body of work from her long years as a resident artist at Huatao Kiln to the winding valley terrain of the kiln and merges her ceramic art into the changing seasons of the surrounding natural environment. This is a unique work of art in which Yuanli’s Huoyenshan landscape is fused with ceramic aesthetics. The whole garden as the exhibition venue is a representation of the local way of life. There are ceramics inspired by nature, vases and utensils with green imagery, and works of nostalgia by the artists who made their ceramics at Huatao Kiln.