Historically speaking, there have been no clear cultural policies for museums in Taiwan following World War II. However, the practices of cultural governance in the construction and development of museums have not receded. Architectural symbols are the characteristics of social and cultural history. Meanwhile, the process of the production of space involves aspects of materials, social practices and imagination, which help to analyze social change and its dynamics. The concepts of cultural governance emphasize that through the use of representations, symbols, system of significance and the struggle for power and resources, the complexity between government policies and regulations, as well as the agency and networking of civil society, can be viewed. The aim of this article is to analyze museum architecture as the material base and conveyor of trajectories of cultural governance. The cultural form of museum architecture is analyzed over different time periods to reveal how different historical ideologies have impacted museum architecture. Moreover, how museum self reflection has been manifested in the inscription of the trajectories of cultural governance and led to social change is discussed. That is, through a historical review of museum architecture, the author intends to develop an approach for interpreting the evolution of museum cultural policies and their material base.