Nevertheless, according to Chen's survey, the only private museums of any real consequence early on in postwar Taiwan were those of Puli insect researcher Yu Muh-sheng, who hope opened his private workshop as the Muh Sheng Museum of Entomology; of entrepreneur Ku Chen-fu, who donated his ancestral residence in Lukang to be the Lukang Folk Arts Museum; and the now-defunct Cathay Fine Arts Museum, founded by the Cathay financial group.
但根據陳國寧查訪，台灣早期較具規模的私人博物館，只有埔里的昆蟲研究工作者余木生，開放自己的工作室成立「木生昆蟲館」；企業家辜振甫捐出鹿港祖宅設置的「私立鹿港民俗文物館」；以及現已關閉、由國泰企業經營的「國泰美術館」。