武汉美术馆

Wuhan Art Museum is a municipal public art museum founded in 1986 and listed as a national key art museum in 2015, now operating two venues on opposite banks of the Yangtze. The Hankou venue at 2 Baohua Street, Zhongshan Avenue, Jiang’an District, occupies the former Jincheng Bank building of 1930, designed by Chinese architect Zhuang Jun in a classical revival style, and opened as the new museum on 26 December 2008; it has 12,139 square metres of floor area, seven galleries and about 2,600 square metres of exhibition space along more than 1,100 metres of hanging line, with Gallery 3 on the second floor offering 8.4 metres of clear height across roughly 600 square metres, useful for large paintings and installations. The Qintai venue at 77 Zhiyin Avenue, Hanyang District, on the northwest shore of Moon Lake, opened on 28 December 2022; designed by Liu Yichun, it covers about 43,000 square metres and is described as the largest single fair-faced concrete building in China, its stacked form reading as silver terraces. Together the two buildings provide about 55,000 square metres, 12 galleries and some 14,000 square metres of exhibition space, with a central hall, international lecture theatre, multi-purpose rooms, collection stores, an art library and children’s education areas. The 2022 Wuhan Biennale was centred on the two venues and the United Art Museum. Sitting in the Hankou historic district and the Qintai cultural quarter respectively, they suit large biennials, brand art projects, opening receptions and academic forums; telephone +86 27 8260 2713 (Hankou) and +86 27 8483 9377 (Qintai).