蓝顶美术馆

Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu sits in the Blue Roof contemporary art park where Tianfu New Area, Jinjiang District and Longquanyi District meet. It opened in January 2009 as the second hillside phase of the Blue Roof art district was completed, and a new building followed in 2012. The museum grew out of the Blue Roof artists' colony that formed in 2003 and is a private, non-profit institution. The new building was designed by Chinese architect Liu Jiakun and has more than 6,000 square metres of floor area with four independent galleries totalling about 2,000 square metres, plus a plaza, screening room, multi-function hall, book bar and sculpture grounds. The collection focuses on painting, installation and new media by artists from southwest China, including works by Luo Zhongli, He Duoling and Zhou Chunya. The museum hosts the annual Chengdu Blue Roof Art Festival and runs residencies for young artists and public education programmes. The old venue is at Blue Roof Slope 2, Hetang Yuese Area A, Sansheng Township, Jinjiang District; the new venue is at Blue Roof Slope 3, Blue Roof Art New Village, Xinxing Township, Tianfu New Area, about seven minutes' walk apart. It opens Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00-17:00; telephone 028-85657618. The surrounding Blue Roof art district gathers more than a hundred artist studios, linking production, exhibition and the art trade.