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West Lake Expo / West Lake Expo Museum
Updated:2016-06-20 00:15:53 Mon
The first West Lake Expo was held in June 1929. After a lapse of 71 years, it once again became an annual event in 2000. Each year the Expo hosts exhibitions and conferences on more than 100 different themes, including the cultural and creative industry expo, fine arts and crafts expo, and the Computing Conference (formerly the Aliyun Worldwide Developer Conference). It is Hangzhou’s annual platform for major economic and cultural activities and transactions.
The West Lake Expo Museum is at 41- 42 Beishan Road in Hangzhou, the original site of the 1929 West Lake Expo Industrial Pavilion. In 2003, it was turned into China’s first thematic museum on exhibitions. It is free and open to the public.

In June of 1929, Hangzhou established the first session of West Lake Exposition. After suspension due to some reasons for 70 years, in 2000, it reverted to be held every year. During exhibition, it usually promotes more than 100 conventions and exhibitions with different topics every year. It is one of iconic events of annual economic culture of Hangzhou.

West Lake Exposition Museum, located in No.41-42 Beishan Road of Hangzhou, based on the main industrial hall of the first session of West Lake Exposition in 1929, is established after repair and reconstruction. The exhibition hall, facing lake and against mountain, echoes with Bai Causeway at a distance, covering an area of 2,350m² and showing a shape in rectangular-ambulatory-plane. The West Lake Exposition Museum after repair not only, in terms of design, keeps the appearance of historical building but also, in terms of internal structure, maintains the basic appearance featuring the herringbone wooden truss of original building.

(Source: Official Website of West Lake Exposition)

 

 

  • Add:No. 41-42 Beishan Road, Hangzhou
  • Tel:0571-88228822
  • Transportation:Take bus No.7, No.27, No.51, No.52, No.118 or Y10, and get off at Ge Ling Stop.
Source:www.ywhangzhou.cn Editor:WANG Jie
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