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National Art Museum of China

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Field	Value
name	National Art Museum of China
native_name	中国美术馆
native_name_lang	zh
logo	National Art Museum of China logo.jpg
logo_caption	Logo of the Museum
image	National Art Museum of China facade.jpg
imagesize	220
caption	Facade of the museum in 2025
alt	An ornate building front stretching the width of the image, slightly tilted, against a uniformly blue sky. Its front has a projecting pavilion in the Chinese style, echoed by a similar pagoda-style top on the roof above it.
coordinates
established	1958
location	1 Wusi Dajie, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
type	Art museum
collections	Ancient and contemporary Chinese art; some Western art
collection_size	100,000+
visitors	1.05 million (2016)
founder	Mao Zedong
architect	Dai Nianci
director	Fan Di'an
owner	Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China
publictransit	National Art Museum station
Dongsi station
parking	On site
website

Dongsi station

The National Art Museum of China (NAMOC; ) is the national art museum of China and one of the largest art museums in the nation. Located in Beijing and opened since 1963, it is a level-1 public welfare institution funded by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China.

The construction of the museum started in 1958, and concluded in 1962. It has a total land area of 30000 m2. The museum was renovated between May 2004 and January 2005, and has been given an additional area of 5375 m2.

Collection

Its permanent collection includes both ancient and contemporary Chinese artworks as well as notable Western artworks. Although the museum contains collection of imperial Chinese art, its main mission is to serve as a national level art museum dedicated to displaying, collecting and researching the modern and contemporary artistic works of China. It has a main building of four stories, the first three being display areas. There are 21 exhibition halls at the museum.

Its collections are divided into specific categories of:

traditional Chinese painting,
oil painting,
print,
sculpture,
Chinese New Year picture,
traditional picture story,
caricature,
watercolor painting,
lacquer,
porcelain, and
costumes

Expansion

In 2012, four high-profile architects — Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel and Moshe Safdie — were invited to submit designs for the new National Art Museum venue, which will be seven times larger than the current venue. The museum will be built in collaboration with the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design. Nouvel's plans were revealed on September 18, 2014 at a press conference in Paris attended by the architect and Chinese and French politicians including Laurent Fabius, the French minister of foreign affairs and international development.

Gallery

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References

(April 2017). "Visitor Figures 2016". [[The Art Newspaper]] Review.
(2013-05-23). "History of National Art Museum of China".
"中国美术馆2023年度社会公开招聘公告 – 中华人民共和国人力资源和社会保障部 National Art Museum of China 2023 Public Recruitment Announcement – Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China".
"Chine - Dialogue franco-chinois de haut niveau sur les échanges humains (18.09.14) - France-Diplomatie - Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international".
Gareth Harris (September 20, 2014), [http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Designs-for-Beijing-megamuseum-unveiled/35679 Designs for Beijing mega-museum unveiled] {{Webarchive. link. (2014-09-24 ''[[The Art Newspaper]]''.)

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