谢子龙影像艺术馆

Xie Zilong Photography Museum stands at 387 Xiaoxiang South Road, Section 1, in Zone D of Yanghu Wetland Park, Yuelu District, Changsha, on the west bank of the Xiang River, and opened on 16 September 2017. Founded with 150 million yuan from photographer Xie Zilong, chairman of Laobaixing Pharmacy, it occupies about ten mu of land with roughly 10,600 square metres of floor area. Designed by Wei Chunyu’s Regional Studio at Hunan University’s School of Architecture, it is built entirely in white fair-faced concrete whose whiteness was improved to over 88 percent, among the whitest such buildings in China, and it won the 2019 ARCASIA Award for Architecture in the public facilities, cultural and institutional category. The four levels place a shop, café, multi-purpose hall, waterside display area and special exhibition room on the ground floor; the second and third floors form about 4,000 square metres of professional galleries along a roughly 1,000-metre route; the top floor holds a collectors’ club, library, studio and gallery. The collection of more than 10,000 items centres on late Qing and Republican-era historical photography, including original albumen prints by Felice Beato, John Thomson, Lai Afong, Thomas Child and William Saunders, and the programme runs five standing strands: collection shows, “Collecting China”, contemporary group exhibitions, Hunan local culture projects and a young artist plan. In May 2019 it was upgraded to the Xie Zilong Photography Museum under the Hunan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics. Set inside Yanghu Wetland Park alongside the Li Zijian Art Museum and the Xiangjiang New Area planning exhibition hall, it suits large photography shows, brand launches, award ceremonies and evening events; opening hours should be confirmed with the museum, telephone +86 731 8899 1518, email service@x-museum.com.