Taipei Collection Botanical Garden (臺北典藏植物園)

The Taipei Collection Botanical Garden (臺北典藏植物園) occupies the former Pavilion of Future (未來館), one of the buildings raised for the 2010-2011 Taipei International Flora Exposition in the Xinsheng Park section of the expo grounds. When the exposition closed, the pavilion kept its botanical role and was renamed as a collection garden.

Its second life was not without debate. In March 2014 the Liberty Times reported that attendance, estimated at around ten thousand a day during the Expo, had fallen to about five hundred, while the city was still spending more than ten million New Taiwan dollars a year on it. The building was then run by the municipal fund for exhibitions and conventions, and the city's urban development department was considering turning part of it over to education and creative industries.

The garden is now under the Taipei Parks and Street Lights Office, managed through its Yuanshan Park administration. It has settled into a role as an environmental education centre, with 'green therapy' workshops, courses around World Environment Day and seasonal exhibitions. Its official website counts more than five million cumulative visits.

The building is a glazed exhibition greenhouse whose interior is laid out as a forest, an arrangement uncommon in Taiwan. It holds Taiwan's green building label at its highest, 'diamond' level. According to the Liberty Times, the pavilion covered about 3,750 m² in 2014. The garden describes itself as the exhibition greenhouse in Taiwan with the largest number of species on show per unit of floor area. The planting scheme was designed by Taiwanese horticulturists.

The greenhouse is a separate building attached to the south-west side of the block still labelled "Pavilion of Future".

The official website lists nearly 500 plant species; in 2014 the press put the figure at around two thousand. The plants are grouped into six zones: native Taiwanese flora, tropical and subtropical plants, orchids and ferns, succulents, temperate plants and alpine plants, with epiphytes also given their own display. In the temperate zone, a begonia collection was assembled under the guidance of botanist Peng Ching-I of Academia Sinica.

Local press coverage has singled out several specimens: the Fiji fan palm (Pritchardia pacifica), whose leaves were once reserved for chiefs; Pieris japonica flowering in late winter; variegated foliage plants; and, in December 2021, a display of more than ten poinsettia cultivars.

The garden stands at No. 16 Binjiang Street, in the Xinsheng section of Taipei Expo Park in Zhongshan District, the same area that hosts the Taipei Rose Festival each spring. Themed displays change with the seasons, from plants linked to the Dragon Boat Festival to year-end poinsettias.

A visit pairs well with a walk through Xinsheng Park and the other sections of the Expo Park, and with the Lin An Tai Historical House, a listed old residence now a museum, about 150 metres to the west.