天津美术馆

Tianjin Art Museum stands at No. 60 Pingjiang Road, Hexi District, Tianjin, in the Tianjin Cultural Centre, a campus it shares with the Tianjin Museum, Grand Theatre, Library and Natural History Museum around a lake and Yinhe Plaza. Its predecessor, the Tianjin Municipal Art Museum, was planned in 1929; the present building opened on 19 May 2012 and was designed jointly by KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten of Germany and the Tianjin Architectural Design Institute. The building has 40,815.23 sqm of gross floor area (some sources cite 28,000 sqm), five storeys and a height of 29.70 m. Exhibition space totals about 9,000 sqm: a temporary hall and opening-event space on the ground floor, open-plan special exhibition halls on levels two and three, and a climate-controlled permanent collection floor with sealed display cases on level four. The level-two hall, 1,800 sqm with an 8 m clear height, is among the largest of its kind in China. The collection of 1,106 objects and sets concentrates on modern and contemporary Chinese painting, oil painting, sculpture, printmaking and decorative arts, built on the Tianjin Museum's holdings. Public and service areas cover about 7,000 sqm and include a lecture theatre, seminar rooms, an art library, studios, mounting and painting-conservation workshops, an art bookshop, a gallery shop, cafes and tea rooms, so the museum can host openings, academic forums and brand events. Metro Lines 5 and 6 stop at Cultural Centre station within walking distance. It opens 9:00-16:30, last entry 16:00, closed Mondays, free of charge.