Apart from the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and the National Science and Technology Museum, the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, projected to be Asia's largest, will open in the year 2000.
近年高雄附近增設了不少文教設施，除了美術館、科學工藝博物館外，東南亞最大的海洋生物博物館將於民國八十九年正式開館。