广东时代美术馆

Guangdong Times Museum is at Times Rose Garden Phase III on Huangbian North Road, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, founded and sustained by Times China, formerly Times Property. It is the first community-based art museum in southern China. In 2003 Times Property and the Guangdong Museum of Art set up a branch gallery in the residential estate; in 2005, within the Guangzhou Triennial, curator Hou Hanru and Hans Ulrich Obrist invited Rem Koolhaas and Alain Fouraux to design a permanent home through the Delta Laboratory project. The new building was completed and opened as an independent institution on 31 December 2010, with about 8,000 square metres of floor area reported by third parties. Its functions are dispersed through a residential tower: the street-level entrance holds the Banyan Tree project space, a café and a 7.8-metre-high multipurpose hall; the 14th floor contains offices converted from three flats; and a dedicated lift passes through the apartments to the 19th-floor galleries, where a lightweight roof of 75 by 12 metres covers the main hall, skylights bring in daylight and terraces and glass rooms look over Guangzhou's northern urban fringe. In 2018 Times China funded a parallel institution, Times Art Center Berlin. The museum is known for community engagement, commissions and public programmes, and reopened in 2024 after a funding adjustment. It opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10:30 to 18:30; telephone +8620-26272363, public programmes at public@timesmuseum.org.