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Located beside the Beishi River in Pinglin, New Taipei City, Pinglin Tea Museum presents the Chinese tea culture and is worth visiting for tea lovers. Pinglin Tea Museum has an abundant collection of materials on tea culture. Within the museum are theme exhibition areas and seasonal theme exhibitions. The exhibitions include physical aspects and cultural aspects, presenting all information concerning tea drinking in Taiwan. The museum is made up of the Exhibition Hall, Theme Hall, Multimedia Hall, Tea Art Hall and the Promotion Center. The Exhibition Hall has 3 exhibition areas: tea history, tea making and tea leaves. Tea History Area introduces how tea has developed in the Chinese history, tea making, rituals of drinking tea, tea culture and commercial development of tea. On the east side of the museum is a well-designed garden of Southern Chinese style. Inside the garden, there are 2 traditional Chinese buildings, corridors, rockery, pavilion and bamboos.