This small but encyclopedic museum presents nearly 700 species of Taiwanese crabs either live or as mounted specimens, enabling Chinese people-who have been eating crabs for 2,000 years-to extend their knowledge of these creatures beyond the limits of their own mouths and stomachs. The museum has also become a center with which researchers and museums in many countries exchange crabs and from which they loan or even buy exhibits.
螃蟹館「麻雀雖小，五臟俱全」，展示與介紹了台灣將近七百種的活蟹與標本，讓吃蟹兩千年的中國人對螃蟹的認識不再限於口腹層次，螃蟹館也成為各國借展、交換螃蟹、甚至收購展品的據點。