As the gathering place of the spirit of human civilization
The museum is endowed with too many symbols and symbols
It can give people a kind of slow down feeling, experience, dialogue, sharing
In an art space
Unconsciously, you will feel the beauty of life
Here are a selection of 36 art galleries worth seeing in China
Don't miss it
01
and Art Museum / Shunde, Guangdong
Tadao Ando
The Art Museum is another masterpiece of Tadao Ando in China, inspired by the ancient Chinese cognition of the universe and philosophy, and incorporating the use of light by Western-style architecture and the characteristics of the Lingnan region, where he wanted to create a still land.
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Yangtze River Art Museum / Taiyuan, Shanxi
Straight to the building
Located at the southern end of the newly built community, in close proximity to the city, the museum is like a hard brick, silent and gazing at the surrounding hustle and bustle of the city at this particular coordinate point of space and time.
03
West Bund Art Museum / Shanghai
David Chipperfield Architects
The triangular plot of art is located at the northernmost tip of the wide riverfront green belt, and the ground plaza surrounding the building is lifted above the floodplain, providing sweeping views of the Huangpu River. The façade material brings colourful daylight into the building, and at night it also reveals brilliant lighting, contrasting with the smooth textured paint finishes of the cantilevered roof.
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Pudong Art Museum / Shanghai
Jean Nouvel Architects
The Pudong Art Museum is a territory; the territory itself is the Pudong Art Museum. The territory occupies an area of 4 hectares and is presented as a medium of warm white granite, which is combined in a manner reminiscent of an irregular "ice crack". The territory is bordered by the Huangpu River to the west, and at the point of contact with the water, the color of the stones becomes whiter.
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UCCA Dune Art Museum / Qinhuangdao, Hebei
OPEN Architects
This faded art gallery is like a mysterious cave hidden under a sand dune. Coastal dunes have undergone a long period of accumulation and wind and sand passage to form naturally, and are solidified by the deep roots of the native low shrubs. The architect retained the irregular or even imperfect texture left on the concrete shell, so that the traces of hand-built construction could be touched and perceived.
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Muxin Art Museum/Wuzhen, Zhejiang
OLI Architecture PLLC
Mr. Mu Xin himself has been chasing beauty, examining beauty, and even criticizing beauty all his life, but when he saw the design draft on his deathbed, he said: "Wind, water, a bridge." As a result, the Muxin Art Museum built around the lake in Wuzhen was completed, with Chen Danqing as the director. The design of the museum follows the simple aesthetic that Mr. Mu Xin liked during his lifetime, and was designed by architect I.M. Pei's disciple Hiroshi Okamoto and others. The rocks and weeds in the museum echo, crazy and elegant.
07
Yue Art Museum/Shenzhen
BLACKhome
The original can production workshop of the Yue Art Museum, the curved glass curtain wall of the original building distorted and deformed the fermenter tank body reflected on it, which aroused the keen interest of the architect. As a result, the architects inherited the arc language in the design of the new façade, using a concave arc interface to correspond to the protruding tank and shape the boundary form of the building.
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Tree Art Museum / Beijing
Daipu Architects
Known as the "Paradise Art Museum", the Tree Art Museum has even become a landmark building in Beijing's Songzhuang, designed by the young architect Mr. Dai Pu, which perfectly blends natural light, greenery and water bodies through real materials and pure spaces. There is no trace of aftershock in the courtyard, and the calm water will help you filter out the complicated mood of the outside world and calm down to enjoy the exhibition here. Perhaps this is the original intention of the designers, like a tree to return to nature, for "photosynthesis" and "aerobic breathing".
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TAG Xihai Art Museum / Qingdao
TAG West Sea Art Museum is a non-profit art institution designed by the famous French architect Jean Nouvel and co-created by French landscape architect Gil Clement, which echoes the ecological concept of community art with the architecture and garden of the museum, and helps the development of the city with contemporary art.
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Long Museum West Bund/Shanghai
Great Lodge architecture
The dragon art museum, founded by Chinese mainland collectors Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei, is a venue freely matched with an "umbrella arch" cantilever structure. Its venue is mainly made of gray concrete, full of unique feelings of the industrial age, giving people a sense of age through time and space. The purely concrete structure and materials of the space presents a pristine wild charm, allowing visitors to feel the spark of a fierce collision between architecture, art and design.
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Song Art Museum/Beijing
Zhu Zhou space design
The Song Art Museum is a transformation of the racecourse of Wang Zhongjun, the founder of Huayi Brothers, with a straight passageway and a curved ancient pine that hides a Chinese-style building made of white stones. In the 365-meter-long courtyard, 199 ancient pine trees of different shapes form a vibrant cultural landscape, and "pine" has become the symbol of this place.
There are ancient buildings on the left and right in the courtyard of the Matsu Museum of Art, which are combined with modern pavilions in the middle. It has both Western-style beauty and oriental charm.
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Wulong Lazy Dam Art Museum/Chongqing
C+ Architects
The Lazy Dam Art Museum is the main exhibition venue designed for the Wulong Lazy Dam International Land Art Festival. As one of the most important buildings in the entire exhibition activity, it is itself a work of land art. In the mountains far from urban civilization, architects use the experience in nature to make people pay attention to nature and return to nature through a little construction of the earth landscape.
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Jishou Art Museum / Jishou, Hunan
Very architectural
The museum is constructed in the form of an upper bridge, the lower steel bridge is an open truss structure that provides a covered street for pedestrians to pass through, while also helping to channel the torrent; the cast-in-place concrete arch bridge on the upper floor features a gallery inside. Between the two bridges is a large exhibition hall enclosed by a glass curtain wall and a cylinder tile shading system for temporary exhibitions.
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Du Ao Art Museum / Ningbo, Zhejiang
Porget Progetto CMR
The Du'ao Art Museum Ningbo is designed by the Italian Bojtite architectural design. This simple contemporary art museum is located in a small village surrounded by mountains in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. Originally a military food station, the Huigang Group acquired it and transformed it into a warehouse for storing "spiritual food", works of art.
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To Art Museum/Shenzhen
Ink Photo Architects
The art museum is transformed from a partial two-story space of an ordinary concrete factory building. The museum is divided into two floors, the main function of the first floor is the entrance hall and multi-purpose hall, and the second floor is the exhibition hall and workshop. In the factory space of more than 900 square meters, the designers create a rich and interesting exhibition experience for the museum through the change of space rhythm, the introduction of natural light and shadow and the use of material texture.
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Lava Art Museum / Anlong County, Guizhou
Sanwen Architecture / He Wei Studio
Built on the huge rock wall on the north side of the Haiwei Valley, the Lava Rock Museum can overlook the entire valley, with strange peaks, strange rocks, rivers, sinkholes, and the visitor service center complex at the bottom of the valley. Sunrise, sunset, cloud roll, cloud shu, in the lava art museum, there is an unreal sense of happiness.
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Phoenix Valley Hilltop Art Museum/Beijing
dEEP Architects
The Phoenix Valley MountainTop Art Museum is located on the Yanshan Mountains at the junction of Beijing and Chengde, overlooking the Jinshanling Great Wall. The designer uses the form of the building to inherit and interpret the "potential", according to the mountain situation, and follow the trend, so as to produce a shape that complements the mountains, reflecting the surrounding continuous mountain terrain and natural forms, and integrating with it.
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Red Brick Art Museum/Beijing
Dong Yugan
Founded by entrepreneurs and collectors Yan Shijie and Cao Mei, the Red Brick Art Museum is a landmark building in No. 1, covering an area of nearly 20,000 square meters, including 8,000 square meters of outdoor gardens. The museum uses red bricks as a basic element, supplemented by the use of green bricks on some buildings, to create a garden-style art museum equipped with a contemporary landscape garden.
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Shanghai Yicang Art Museum/Shanghai
Dashe Architects
Originally an old coal silo, the Eikura Museum of Art was designed with a suspended structure, using the top frame columns left behind by the roof that had been demolished to support a set of giant trusses, which were then hung under the layers using this truss. The slightly misaligned transverse laminates serve both as space and as a landscape, as if to hint at the fluidity characteristics of the Huangpu River.
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Fan Zeng Art Museum / Nantong, Jiangsu Province
Original design studio
Fan Zeng Art Museum was built to meet the needs of Master Fan Zeng's calligraphy and painting works and the Nantong Fan family's poetry family for display, exchange, research and collection. The art museum takes the traditional space "courtyard" as the starting point, separates the courtyard from the materialization relationship, and then presents the unity of travel and visualization, in order to achieve the artistic conception of "getting the ancient meaning and writing the present heart".
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Jining Art Museum / Jining, Shandong
Nishizawa Ritsugue Architects
The design idea is to implant organic curved shapes into a large area of roof, naturally continuing the organic landscape in the park. Exhibition halls of different sizes and other different types of rooms are arranged independently within the museum, and the exterior is surrounded by glass corridors, forming multiple courtyards.
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Shuyang Art Museum / Shuyang, Jiangsu Province
Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University
Shuyang Art Museum is positioned as a calligraphy art museum that displays and inherits shuyang literary style, and the architectural conception extracts the most fundamental black, white and red colors in Chinese calligraphy art from rice paper, pen and ink, and seals, creating a pure spatial experience with a simple color block volume. The red brick façade of the largest exhibition hall along the street is like a solid engraving, stamped on the flowing ink painting scroll.
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Zhi Art Museum/Xinjin County, Chengdu
Kengo Kuma
Designed by the famous architect Kengo Kuma, located at the foot of Laojun Mountain in Xinjin County, the "Zhi Art Museum" guides people to the sacred place of Taoism on the top of the mountain, the tiles are connected by cables, the tiles suspended in the air give people a sense of lightness and ease, the shape of space rotation, so that the light extends from dark to light, and the light and shadow that penetrate the gaps in the tiles are particularly soft.
24
Jingdezhen Royal Kiln Museum / Jingdezhen, Jiangxi
Zhu Pei Studio
The museum consists of eight arched brick buildings of varying sizes. Visitors can walk through it and get up close and personal with the bricks. Jingdezhen locals also have a deep affection for kiln bricks, "In the old days, when children were going to school in winter, they would pick up a hot kiln brick from a passing porcelain kiln and stuff it into their bags and hold it in their arms, and with the temperature brought by this brick, they would survive the cold winter for half a day." Zhu Pei's studio visualizes this emotion, hoping to infect all visitors in the form of architecture.
25
Baitasi Hutong Art Museum/Beijing
DnA Design & Architecture
Baitasi Hutong Art Museum, hidden in Baitasi Hutong, Beijing. The gallery is close to a 700-year-old Buddhist temple that includes artists' residences and hosts community exhibitions to meet the needs of creative people living and working in emerging communities. "The building connects the historical context with future projects and will offer new possibilities for hutong community life," the architect explains.
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Quan Art Museum/Beijing
The first practice of architecture
The art museum is built next to a lake in Songzhuang, the entire space design is simple and atmospheric, and the aluminum grille ceiling brings a simple and consistent neutral atmosphere to the space, creating the best background for art exhibits. The roof terraces create a height difference between each other, and natural light reaches each exhibition space.
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China (Hainan) South China Sea Museum / Qionghai City, Hainan
Architectural Design and Research Institute of South China University of Technology
China (Hainan) South China Sea Museum has a unique coastal landscape, the building shape encountered a section of mangrove wetlands in the site, the use of corridors and roof double-storey up to 60 meters of high span, to obtain a rare semi-outdoor landscape space and novel perspective. The sea-view promenade, which stretches in a north-south direction and parallels to the sea, serves as an intermediary between the landscape and the exhibition hall, creating an open, bright, flowing, impressive, relaxed and pleasant space.
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Shandong Art Museum / Jinan, Shandong
Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tongji University
The architectural design of Shandong Art Museum establishes the theme of mountains and cities, and the architectural shape naturally transitions from a four-story mountain to a six-story square; under the concept of "mountains and cities are dependent, springs and cities are reflected", the venue style adopts a retreating Taiwanese shape from south to north, and the number of floors to the north gradually increases, and the shape gradually changes from trapezoidal to square; and the image of "spring" is reflected by the skylight of the roof.
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Taizhou Museum of Contemporary Art / Taizhou, Zhejiang
The art museum tries to create a new artistic spatial atmosphere with the roughness of cast-in-place concrete and the delicacy of the parallel barrel arch space, and the structure of the barrel arch is very well combined with the lighting design of the exhibition hall, and the space communicates the inside and outside of the building, forming a correspondence between the structure and the scenery.
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Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art / Yinchuan, Ningxia
Waa Wei Jue (Beijing) Architectural Design Office
The design of the museum's exterior is based on the changes in the landform over the past thousand years, and the flowing wrinkle texture restores the sedimentary rock movement that has shaped the current landform for thousands of years, and there is a dialogue with the past of this land thousands of years ago. Like a geological section "in motion", it alludes to the changes in this land over the past thousand years, and its smooth and elegant lines give people the impression of lightness, as if it is "landing" on the earth and becoming a landscape of its own.
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Nanjing Sifang Art Museum / Nanjing, Jiangsu
Steven Hall Studio
The museum consists of parallel perspective spaces of "blocks" and black bamboo-patterned poured concrete garden walls, and the building as a whole floats lightly in the air. The straight passage on the ground gradually became a zigzag passage on the upper floor.
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Zhejiang Art Museum / Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Construction design
The building volume unfolds according to the shape of the mountain, and falls to the lake layer by layer, and the undulating building outline is like an extension of the mountain, which naturally blends into the environmental background. The color contrast between the black roof components and the large white walls, and the modeling techniques interspersed with the multi-sided slope roof, express the traditional architectural characteristics of Jiangnan between "similar and not similar", and exude the temperament of Jiangnan culture like ink paintings.
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Ordos Art Museum / Ordos, Inner Mongolia
DnA
Ordos Art Museum is located in Dongsheng District, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, the art museum is built on the sand dunes, with a semi-enclosed square as the representative structure, the internal space of the building continues to change, resulting in changes in the semi-open structure, you can see the natural scenery outside from the inside of the building, so that visitors can enjoy the beautiful natural scenery while viewing the artworks.
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Yu Qingcheng Art Museum / Jizhou, Tianjin
Zhang Hua Architecture – Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tianjin University
Known as the "hermaphrodite" Yu Qingcheng Art Museum, the design conception is described as "pinching mud" in sensual terms, and the rational word is a manifold: a shape that is full of movement from beginning to end and has two or more different forms of expression. The source of inspiration is also related to the works of clay sculptors Yu Qingfa. Although controversial, it is still a bold and imaginative art museum.
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Han Meilin Art Museum / Yinchuan, Ningxia
Sanlei design
Mr. Han Meilin once said that when he first saw the ancient rock paintings of Helan Mountain, he felt that he had truly found a home for art. In 2010, he donated many of his works to the Yinchuan Municipal Government, and the Yinchuan Han Meilin Art Museum was built for this reason. Located in the Helan Mountain Petroglyph Site Scenic Area, the museum reinterprets local petroglyphs in the form of contemporary architecture and contemporary art, showing the inheritance and continuation of ancient civilization and modern art.
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Fengying Cultivated Stone Art Museum / Chongwu, Fujian
GOA Elephant Design
Located in Chongwu, Fujian Province, Fengying Cultivated Stone Art Museum is a national-level carving master Wu Deqiang's exhibition hall and a renovation project located in the carving workshop. The architect implanted three courtyards of different postures into the building, forming an isolated and independent world.
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