Wuhan Art Museum

The art museum is located in the bustling Nanjing Road of Hankou, which is within walking distance from Jianghan Road. There are often some art exhibitions here, mainly painting exhibitions, photo exhibitions, calligraphy exhibitions, and sometimes lecture meetings. It's a nice quiet place in a noisy city.

Wuhan Art Museum

The new museum of Wuhan Art Museum is based on the original Jincheng bank building in Hankou. The Former Hankou Jincheng bank building is a four story reinforced concrete structure, designed by Zhuang Jun, the first generation architect in China.

In 2005, the Wuhan municipal government invested nearly 200 million yuan for reconstruction and expansion. While retaining the original architectural style, the new museum has also scientifically designed and reconstructed its internal structure according to the requirements of the functions and facilities of the art museum. The overall layout of the new museum is the atrium corridor pattern, which is one of the important cultural facilities in Wuhan. In 2015, it was selected as the second batch of national key art museums.

Historical evolution

The predecessor of Wuhan Art Museum

The former site of Jincheng Bank of Wuhan Art Museum was started in 1930 and completed in 1931. The facade of Jincheng bank adopts the western classical style of porch columns, with columns up to three floors and circular arch windows on the second floor, which makes the whole facade of the building magnificent and full of certain changes. In 1938, the Japanese invaded Wuhan and occupied the building of Jincheng bank as the general headquarters. It was not until the victory of the Anti Japanese war in 1945 that Jincheng bank took back the building. After liberation, in 1952, Jincheng bank building was rented to Wuhan Library by the bank at that time. In 1957, Wuhan children's library was opened in this building. In 2003, Wuhan Art Museum was planned to be established, and the children's library moved out. This building has gone through different times, and the course of its life has also experienced ups and downs. It seems that the protection of excellent historical buildings should be a permanent topic.

Wuhan Art Museum is a public welfare national cultural institution with administrative office, exhibition department, academic collection department, education promotion department, equipment security department and property management department.

The new Wuhan Art Museum is located in the most prosperous central area of three towns in Wuhan. It is located at the intersection of Nanjing Road, Huangshi road and Zhongshan Avenue in Hankou In 2005, it invested 100 million yuan for reconstruction and expansion. In addition to retaining the original architectural style, it also transformed the interior according to the functional requirements of the art museum, and equipped with advanced central air conditioning, constant temperature and humidity, fire safety and other automatic management facilities. It is a key cultural construction project in Wuhan.

With a total construction area of 12139 square meters, the new hall has seven exhibition halls, with an area of about 2600 square meters. The total length of the exhibition line is more than 1100 meters. Among them, the height of hall 3 on the second floor is 8.4 meters, with an area of about 600 square meters. All the exhibition halls are equipped with slide type movable display boards and exhibition walls, which makes the exhibition display and layout more flexible and full of visual changes To create an elegant artistic atmosphere. At the same time, it is equipped with advanced central air conditioning, constant temperature and humidity, central monitoring, fire alarm, 24-hour alarm and other automatic management facilities.

In addition, there are also artist studios, training classrooms, restoration rooms, libraries and other places in the museum, which carry the functions of exhibition and display

The function of collection protection, academic research, art education, art exchange and social service. It has built an "art island" standing in the center of the city and the middle of the road.

The old Wuhan Art Museum was completed on December 12, 1986 and exhibited for the first time. Located in the east side of the main building of Wuhan exhibition hall, the art museum is a quadrangle square structure, with three exhibition halls with an area of 400 square meters and a front hall. The total exhibition area is 1600 square meters, which can accommodate thousands of visitors at a time. The exhibition hall is equipped with shadowless artificial lighting and more than 100 360 degree adjustable directions, which can better set off the artistic effect of the exhibits. It became one of the most advanced art museums in China at that time. It can hold large-scale exhibitions that can hold 100 works, or hold two or three small and medium-sized exhibitions at the same time. It was demolished and closed in 1993.

Opening activities

On December 26, 2008, Wuhan Art Museum, which was rebuilt with 220 million yuan invested by Wuhan municipal government, was opened to the public.

On the opening day, with the theme of "Reconstruction - our art museum", a series of exhibitions were launched, such as "interaction - 2008 Chinese contemporary oil painting exhibition", "Qi Baishi works exhibition collected by Beijing Academy of painting", "Qingchuan · Qingchuan - Chinese painting exhibition of ten people in Hubei", "mode - Exhibition of artists in France Wang dute". According to the staff of the art museum, the exhibitions of domestic masters will be introduced once or twice a year. The exhibitions of Xu Beihong and Liu Haisu, two great masters in modern Chinese art history, will be arranged in 2009. The exhibitions of foreign masters will also be arranged. For example, the exhibition of German painter Ludwig has also been included in the 2009 plan.

architectural composition

Wuhan Art Museum, with a total construction area of 12139 square meters, has seven exhibition halls, with an area of about 4230 square meters and a total length of more than 1000 meters. All the exhibition halls are equipped with slide type movable panels and exhibition walls, making the exhibition display and layout more flexible and full of visual changes. The exhibition hall adopts advanced professional lighting system to set off the works and create an elegant artistic atmosphere. At the same time, it is equipped with advanced central air conditioning, constant temperature and humidity system, all-weather security, fire monitoring system and other automatic management facilities. In addition, there are training classrooms, restoration rooms, art salons, galleries and other functional areas in the museum, which have the functions of exhibition, collection and protection, academic research, art education, art exchange and social services.

protective measures

The new museum not only retains the original architectural style, but also carries out the scientific design and transformation of the internal structure according to the requirements of the functions and facilities of the art museum. The art museum full of classical and artistic charm will stand on the "Triangle Island" surrounded by Zhongshan Avenue and Baohua street, which is a key cultural construction project in Wuhan.

Jincheng bank is now a first-class protected building in Wuhan, while Jincheng bank's staff dormitory area was a second-class protected building in Wuhan. "From historical experience, only those used buildings can be preserved." This is also the original intention of the site selection of the art museum, which will enhance the function and environmental quality of the old city. It can't be abandoned and rebuilt. We can only take this group of protected buildings on the Triangle Island as the main body, transform and expand them to form an art museum, which has also become a new attempt to reuse the historical protected buildings in our city.

Practical information

Ticket information

Free Admission

Opening Hours

From Tuesday to Sunday: 9:00-17:00, 16:30; closed every Monday, except holidays.

Traffic information

transit

Take No. 1, No. 7, No. 24 all night line, No. 38, No. 45, No. 402, No. 520, No. 526, No. 559, No. 581, No. 707, No. 711, No. 727, No. 801 to Zhongshan Avenue Nanjing Road station.

Address: No.2 Baohua street, Jiang'an District, Wuhan (on the triangle island of Zhongshan Avenue and Baohua Street)

Longitude: 114.29299926758

Latitude: 30.58390045166

Tel: 027-82602713

Official website: http://www.wuhanam.com/

Tour time: 1 hour

Traffic information: take No.2 tram, No.7, 24, 38, 45, 301, 402, 520, 533, 548, 559, 581, 588, 598, 608, 707, 711, 727, 801 to Nanjing Road station.

Ticket information: Free

Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 (admission stops at 16:00). Closed on Mondays and open on holidays

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