金陵美术馆

Jinling Art Museum occupies 50 Jianzi Lane, Qinhuai District, Nanjing, on the site of the former Nanjing Yarn-Dyed Fabric Factory. It is the main element of the “one academy, two museums” industrial conversion approved by the municipal government, together with the Nanjing Painting and Calligraphy Academy and the Old South City Memory Museum, and opened in September 2013 as Nanjing's first municipal art museum combining exhibition, collection and research. The whole project has 15,625 square metres of floor area, of which the museum takes 6,000 square metres with five galleries plus a lecture hall, bookshop, art shop, gallery, reference room and café. The building reuses the old factory structure while inserting contemporary exhibition spaces, and sits at the edge of the Laomendong-Fuzimiao historic district, within walking distance of the Ming city wall and the Qinhuai River. It is administered by the Nanjing culture and publishing bureau and handles municipal collecting, exhibition programming and public education, with a focus on Jiangsu and Nanjing artists alongside touring shows from elsewhere. It generally opens Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00-17:00, closed Mondays; telephone 025-84628486 or 025-84628781; website jinlingartmuseum.com. The three spaces share one former factory compound, so a single visit can link the museum, the academy and the city-memory displays for visitors.