湖北美术馆

Hubei Museum of Art stands at 1 Sanguandian, Donghu Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan, on the shore of East Lake and across the road from the Hubei Provincial Museum. Government-built and government-run, it opened on 6 November 2007 and became free to the public on 30 October 2008, the first provincial art museum in China to do so; it was renamed from Hubei Provincial Art Gallery in July 2010 and was named one of the first batch of national key art museums in 2011. The site covers 15,318 square metres, with a main building of about 25,000 square metres over four levels above ground and one below, containing ten galleries plus a special exhibition room and a video gallery, roughly 5,000 square metres of exhibition area and more than 1,200 metres of hanging line, together with a collection store, art exchange centre, lacquer art centre and art library. The collection, around 3,700 works by public counts from about 2020, concentrates on modern and contemporary Hubei art across ink painting, oil painting, printmaking, sculpture, watercolour, lacquer, photography and calligraphy. Its signature programmes include the Hubei International Lacquer Triennial, the Art Documents Exhibition, the China Industrial Print Triennial and the Sanguandian No.1 Art Exhibition. Next to the provincial museum and East Lake, and reached by metro line 8 at Shengbo Hubei Daily station, it suits large exhibitions, academic forums, opening ceremonies and cultural brand collaborations; open Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-17:00, last entry 16:30, closed Mondays, telephone +86 27 8679 6062 or 8679 6067, email hbmsg86796002@163.com.