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The Pingtung Art Museum (formerly the site of the Township Office) faces west and sits to the east. It is among the first generation of county-administered municipal government buildings erected after World War II and carries local historic significance. Designed and supervised by Public Works technician Lin Rong-zhang, the structure measures 52 m long and 20 m wide, occupying roughly 980 m². Completed in October 1953, it served as the township office until July 2005, when the office moved to a new administrative building. The county’s Cultural Affairs Bureau then borrowed the site rent-free for five years, renovating it into an art museum with subsidies from the Council for Cultural Affairs. Early this year, as the term expired, the township office reclaimed management per the agreement. The county government removed some interior installations and all lighting fixtures, and the office is now refurbishing the interior, hoping to dazzle citizens when the museum reopens. The museum space exhibits spatial characteristics of early modern architecture. Its façade is marked by rows of slender windows, with only an added entrance canopy highlighting the doorway. Inside, tall colonnades stand virtually free of partitions, and light from the strip windows creates a strong sense of openness. Currently empty, the building reveals a ceiling structure of exposed fir beams. Round or square window muntins and column capitals in a Western, leaf-like form shift with the light and shadow, accentuating the unique beauty of the museum’s architecture.