In step with the changing times, the CKS Memorial Hall began a transformation in 2003. In January of 2003, the hall took back administration of the Zhong Zheng (CKS) Art Gallery from the National Taiwan Arts Education Center, and started to hold various exhibitions. In November it cosponsored “Ancient Egyptian Art from the Musée du Louvre” with the Ming Sheng Bao newspaper, attracting 400,000 exhibition goers. Hosting a major international exhibition for the first time represented an important milestone for the hall. To expand its space devoted to art as well as social and educational programs, the hall embarked on renovations in April of 2006. These included the expansion of a lecture hall and of exhibition space, renovations of the office areas on the second floor, and construction of new spaces for exhibitions and classrooms on the third floor. This work was completed on September 23rd, 2008. In recent years the hall has begun to expand its cultural activity offerings, including lifelong learning classes (in 2013 they were renamed life aesthetics classes). The numbers of students and classes have gradually grown, rising from 189 classes in 2006 to 335 in 2011. These classes have become an important source of revenue for the hall. What’s more, every year the hall hosts a major special international exhibition. In June of 2011 it held the exhibition “Quest for Immortality—The World of Ancient Egypt,” which attracted more than 600,000 visitors, the all-time record to date for an exhibition at the hall. In addition, from October to December of 2011, the hall sponsored “Repertory Theater: Festival of Classic Taiwanese Theater Pieces,” providing audiences with a varied program of performances.

Every year since 2009 the hall has sponsored research on CKS in conjunction with Academia Historica, Academia Sinica or the Chungcheng Cultural and Educational Foundation. In June of 2010 the office signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum to engage in a series of educational, scientific and cultural exchanges. In July of that same year the hall’s store opened, selling a variety of novelty items using the CKS Memorial Hall, Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo as their themes. Among these, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Liquor, produced by Kinmen Kaoliang Liquor, won a Taiwan Best 100 award in 2012. With the trend toward developing cultural and creative industries, the hall launched a brand image design project that same year, aiming to create its own branded products to sell.

As the years have passed, CKS Memorial Hall has begun to face issues involving the historical preservation of its site. In November of 2007, the government designated the area encompassing the Main Hall, the front ceremonial archway, Democracy Plaza and Democracy Boulevard as an historic site: “Taiwan Democracy Memorial Park.” In August of 2011, a maintenance plan was drawn up, and the plan was revised in 2012. In November of 2012, the hall outsourced a research project on the park with the objective of studying the most appropriate steps to preserve and make best use of the cultural and historical value of the site. Since 2004 the CKS Memorial Hall Office has been integrating academic and social resources; creating educationally oriented park areas, paths and gardens; and turning the hall and its park into an excellent place for school field trips, family outings and public leisure activities. What’s more, the Japan-Taiwan Friendship Association of Chuo University in Japan gave the hall its first cherry trees (300 of them) in February of 2005. A stone tablet was erected to commemorate the occasion. The Council of Agriculture’s Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute then donated 32 plum trees in 2011. Taipei’s public no longer has to make the long trek to Yangming Shan to enjoy the cherry and plum blossom season.

As a result of a reorganization of the Executive Yuan, the hall came under the authority of the Ministry of Culture on May 20th, 2012. Putting a focus on social and cultural matters, the hall office has worked to strengthen research into the thoughts of President Chiang Kai-shek, to preserve the hall’s own value as an historic site, and to develop its own cultural and creative product brands, thereby raising the aesthetic quality of people’s lives, building a platform for arts-related exchanges, and creating a world-class tourism environment.