浙江美术馆

Zhejiang Art Museum stands at 138 Nanshan Road, Hangzhou, on the shore of West Lake beside Wansongling. The site covers 35,000 square metres and the building 32,000 square metres. The museum was sited personally by Xi Jinping during his work in Zhejiang, who attended the foundation ceremony and pressed the button to start construction; it opened to the public in August 2009. Inside are 14 galleries of different sizes, five of them climate-controlled, giving 7,000 square metres of exhibition space, alongside a 3,000-square-metre storage area, a central hall, an international lecture theatre, a multi-function room, a connoisseurship room, an art library and document centre, a children's art area, a bookshop and a café. Its direction is “contemporary first, history included; rooted in Zhejiang, facing the world”, and its research and collection programme centres on modern and contemporary art in Zhejiang. It became a founding member of the national art museum committee in 2009, joined CIMAM in 2011, was designated a national key art museum in 2015 and became a national 4A scenic area in 2022. It opens Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00-17:00, closed Mondays except public holidays; telephone 0571-87078700. Displays drawn from the collection trace modern Zhejiang art history, while the annual programme mixes research exhibitions with international loans. The lakeside site is a short walk from the China Academy of Art and the West Lake scenic area.