Suzhou Art Museum

Suzhou Art Museum

Suzhou Art Museum (New Museum) is located in the center of Gusu District, Suzhou City, northwest of Beisi tower, east of Renmin Road, west of Taohua River, north of xiaochangqiao road. It is a new cultural landmark in the north section of Renmin Road, the main road of Suzhou ancient city.

Pacific Coliseum

The new Suzhou Art Museum, completed in early 2010, has a total investment of 372 million yuan and a total construction area of 33400 square meters. The new museum is located in the northwest of Beisi pagoda, adjacent to Renmin Road in the East, Taohua River in the west, and xiaochangqiao road in the north. It echoes with the surrounding Beisi pagoda, Taohuawu woodcut New Year picture Museum, Kunqu opera school, Puyuan, Tangyin Memorial Hall and other cultural relics and landscapes, forming a collection of intangible cultural heritage protection and exhibition, public leisure tourism and cultural activities in the northwest corner of Suzhou ancient city The cultural area of integration.

The newly built Suzhou Art Museum adopts the traditional Suzhou style residential style, with cornices and corners, pink walls and tiles, and classical flower windows. There are many long and square compartments in the museum, forming a long corridor architectural pattern. The grey roof line falls layer upon layer, which not only meets the needs of building space ventilation and lighting, but also forms the change effect with rich charm. The sunlight and breeze flow in every corner, which is a "Su but new" style.

The venue is divided into one underground floor and two above ground floors. On the first floor, there is a large exhibition hall with a height of 8 meters and an area of 800 square meters, while the other six small exhibition halls with an area of 300-400 square meters are scattered on the first and second floors. The multi-functional academic lecture hall, constant temperature and humidity warehouse and citizen gallery are specially set up in the museum, which can meet the needs of various large and medium-sized art exhibitions, academic exchange activities, art collection and research, as well as communication and teaching Education, art services and other functions. In addition, there are conference room, examination room, activity planning room, dance training room, art creation room and other functional space.

The new museum of Suzhou Art Museum is characterized by boundless design, diversified exhibitions and free opening. "Borderless design", one is formal, which means that the building abandons the high wall gate and becomes a completely open space, where the audience can enter from any angle of the street. The second is psychological, that is, the way of communication between the museum and the audience will gradually change from authoritative, instructive and standard to consultative, constructive and non-standard. The new museum of Suzhou Art Museum will share happiness with the people with a more cordial attitude and focus on the audience. It will fully meet the audience's needs of leisure, entertainment, social interaction, sightseeing, learning and other aspects, and become a more humanized experience center.

Historical evolution

In 1919, Yan Wenliang, the founder of modern Chinese art, art educator and oil painter, together with his colleagues, launched the "art competition" in Suzhou, which created the first "Art Exhibition" in the history of modern Chinese art. With the purpose of "advocating painting, encouraging each other, just browsing and not judging", it has been held every new year's day in Suzhou for 21 times. In 1922, he and his like-minded friends Hu cuizhong and Zhu Shijie established the Academy of fine arts. After more than ten years of exploration and efforts, the foundation of the new academy was laid in October 1931. In 1932, with the approval of the Ministry of education, Suzhou Academy of fine arts was officially named as Suzhou Academy of fine arts. It is the first Academy of Fine Arts in China officially named by the government. In 1927, Yan Wenliang established Suzhou Art Museum, which is also the predecessor of Suzhou Art Museum.

In September 1987, Suzhou Municipal People's government listed the former site of Art College as a municipal cultural relic protection unit, and decided to rebuild Suzhou Art Museum here. Since 1995, the old site has been comprehensively renovated to preserve the original appearance, and the interior has been transformed according to the functional requirements of the museum. At the end of 1996, Suzhou Art Museum and Yan Wenliang memorial hall were officially opened to the public. In 2011, the government invested again to move the Suzhou Art Museum to 2075 Renmin Road, which was included in the scope of Suzhou public cultural center.

Collection in the Museum

Suzhou Art Museum takes the "management measures for collection of art works of Suzhou Art Museum (Trial)" as the standard, through the channels of "exhibition instead of collection" and striving for donation, after nearly two or three years of efforts, the collection has grown from scratch and gradually formed a system, covering the categories of contemporary Chinese art.

From April 2012, the collection department began to carry out detailed sorting and cataloging work on the collections. In August, he compiled the collection Atlas of Suzhou Art Museum 2009-2011. The compilation and publication of this book not only promotes the professional construction of the museum, but also summarizes and combs the collection and research work of the museum.

The collections of Suzhou Art Museum include:

Zhu Shijie has 43 oil paintings in total, such as "the snow in the cold forest", "nostalgia", "peaks and peaks", "waterfall", "Ruixue", "wild rose", "ten sisters of vase flower" and so on

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There are 42 works by Yan Wenliang, such as kitchen (1928), 10th anniversary of National Day (1959), moon in Stone Lake (1912), etc

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Honors

In November 2019, the list of national intangible cultural heritage representative project protection units was announced, and Suzhou Art Museum was recognized as the protection unit of traditional art "Taohuawu woodcut New Year pictures" project by the Ministry of culture and tourism

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Activities

Suzhou Art Museum actively carries out various art activities. Since its opening, it has held several influential art exhibitions and works of famous artists at home and abroad. It has also undertaken many influential and continuous exhibitions such as "Yan Wenliang Art Award" and "bonsai Biennale". At the same time of holding exhibitions, Suzhou Art Museum has actively carried out all kinds of public education activities, including monthly public lectures and public welfare activities in cooperation with exhibitions. Suzhou Art Museum has become an important art hall for aesthetic education to the general public.

Surrounding landscape

It is adjacent to Beisi Pagoda in the East, Puyuan in the west, Kunqu theater in the north and Silk Museum in the south.

Practical information

Notice to visitors: Notice to visit Suzhou Art Museum

Volunteer application method:

① Collect the form at the front desk of the art museum and give it to the staff after completion. ② fill in the volunteer application form of Suzhou Art Museum on the official website

Traffic information

Bus routes: take bus No.1, you No.1, you No.4, 5, 8, 31, 33, 38, 54, 69, 101, 102, 112, 502, 602, 923 to pingmen station.

Address: 2075 Renmin Road, Suzhou (near Beisi pagoda)

Longitude: 120.61730957031

Latitude: 31.324327468872

Tel: 0512-82280915

Ticket information: free. Visitors are required to collect tickets at the information office.

Chinese PinYin : Su Zhou Mei Shu Guan