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Zhejiang Art Museum
Updated:2016-06-20 10:51:31 Mon
Now the province’s largest public art museum, the Zhejiang Art Museum opened in 2009 and is one of China’s key national museums. It is located at 138 Nanshan Road in Hangzhou. The primary mission of the museum is to collect and exhibit works of art and literature, but it also engages in academic research and offers public cultural services.

Zhejiang Art Museum, located in lakeside of West Lake in Nanshan Road of Hangzhou, adjoins to Wansong Mountain and covers an area of 35,000m² including a building area of 32,000m². Zhejiang Art Museum was officially opened to the public in August 2009. Since the museum is opened, it has always persisted in the museum-establishment direction of “Aim at contemporary era, give consideration to history, based on Zhejiang, face the world” and the academic tenet of “Publicity, diversity, openness”, regarding “Chinese style” as its own style pursuit, and has successfully held a big batch of outstanding exhibitions including “Exhibition of Art Works with Great Historic and Cultural Significance of Zhejiang”, “Chinese Glory - Huang Binhong Art Exhibition” and “Hangzhou • Biennial Exhibition of Chinese Painting”, etc. In 2015, it became the important national art museum.

Zhejiang Art Museum focuses on enshrining and exhibiting the works, cultural relics and literatures of artists in modern times, especially those born in Zhejiang and have important art activities in Zhejiang, reflecting the development history of Zhejiang art. At present, it has possessed near 20,000 art collections of different kinds.

(Source: Official Website of Zhejiang Art Museum)

 

 

  • Add:No. 138 Nanshan Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
  • Tel:0571-87078700
  • Transportation:1.Take bus Y9 (Night)/K102/J9/Y9/Y6/822/K822/ 809/K808/12/K12/K4/514/K514 (Interzonal) and get off at Wang Song Ling Lu Kou Stop, then walk south along Nanshan Road for 100 meters. 2.Take bus Y9/Y6/Y3/K808/K4/Y9 (Night) and get off at Chang Qiao (Zhejiang Art Museum) Stop, and walk east towards Nanshan Road for 50 meters. 3.Take bus No.809/12/K12 and get off at Yu Huang Shan Lu Kou Stop, and walk north towards Nanshan Road for 50 meters.
Source:www.ywhangzhou.cn Editor:WANG Jie
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