中国美术学院美术馆

The Art Museum of China Academy of Art occupies the Nanshan campus at 216 Nanshan Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, beside West Lake. Its predecessor, the National Academy of Art exhibition hall, was initiated by Cai Yuanpei in 1935 and built under the supervision of Lin Fengmian, making the site a key location in Chinese art education and the modern art movement. The museum now has five levels including one basement and about 8,700 square metres of floor area; a renovation completed in September 2022 added climate control to the galleries and renewed the lecture hall, storage, public education and design retail spaces. It was designated a national key art museum by the Ministry of Culture in 2015, one of thirteen nationwide, became one of the first pilot units for cultural and creative product development in 2017, and is a member of CIMAM. Its mission is to train artists, advocate art movements and promote public art education, with collections built around works by teachers and students since the National Academy of Art, modern and contemporary Chinese art and design archives. Exhibitions are framed around historical research and current academic questions. It opens 9:00-17:00; reception telephone 0571-86611569; advance booking is required, with details on the official website. Research exhibitions and public programmes draw on the academy's history and collection, and extend to design, film and interdisciplinary work.