The National Art Museum of China ( NAMOC ; 中国美术馆 ; 'China Art Museum') is the national art museum of China and the largest art museum 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 .
4-519: China Art Museum may refer to: National Art Museum of China ( 中国美术馆 ; lit. ' China Art Museum ' ), a national museum of China located in Dongcheng, Beijing China Art Museum, Shanghai , a municipal art museum located in Pudong, Shanghai Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
8-562: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages National Art Museum of China The construction of the museum started in 1958, and concluded in 1962. It has a total land area of 30,000 square metres (320,000 sq ft). The museum was renovated between May 2004 and January 2005, and has been given an additional area of 5,375 square metres (57,860 sq ft). Its permanent collection includes both ancient and contemporary Chinese artworks as well as notable Western artworks. Although
12-543: 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: In 2012, four high-profile architects — Frank Gehry , Zaha Hadid , Jean Nouvel and Moshe Safdie — were invited to submit designs for
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