The Zhejiang Provincial Museum , also known as Zhejiang Memorial Museum of Revolutionary History , is the provincial museum of Zhejiang , China, located in Hangzhou . It was established in 1929 as the West Lake Museum on the Gushan Island in the West Lake . It houses over 100,000 items in its permanent collection.
8-750: The museum as founded in December 1929 as the Zhejiang Provincial West Lake Museum, with the land of Wenlan Pavilion donated by the Zhejiang Provincial Government in December 1930. Since the Japanese invasion in 1937, the museum was relocated to multiple locations, until it dissolved in July 1941. In June 1943, it was re-established in Longquan in western Zhejiang, and returned to Hangzhou in
16-588: A large gate facing the lake, followed by a flowery corridor, and through the rocky mountain cave you can see the imperial chambers. In the middle of the pond is the two-storey library building. On the eastern axis is the Luohan Hall and the Qing Dynasty Scholar's Residence Exhibition Hall which was rebuilt in 2009. 30°15′11″N 120°08′18″E / 30.25313°N 120.13821°E / 30.25313; 120.13821 This garden-related article
24-744: The Imperial Wenlan Library , Imperial Library or Wenlan Ge , is a library and garden located in Hangzhou , Zhejiang Province, China . The library was one of the seven major collections of books built by the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty to house the Siku Quanshu and the only surviving one among the southern collections. The Wenlan Pavilion was built in 1782 (47th year of the Qianlong reign of
32-565: The Qing dynasty ) and completed in the following year. In 1853, Zhenjiang Wenzong Mansion and Yangzhou Wenhui Mansion were both destroyed by the Taiping Rebellion and were not restored after the war, but Wenlan Library collapsed in 1861 when the Taiping Army captured Hangzhou and was rebuilt in 1880. The Imperial Library is a typical Chinese garden in the centre of the West Lake . It has
40-792: The Neolithic jade artefact of Liangzhu culture, the Neolithic ivory carving of Hemudu culture, the Sword of Yue King Zhuji Yushi . It also deposits the The Remaining Mountain by Yuan dynasty painter Huang Gongwang, which is part of the larger painting Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains , with the other half housed in the National Palace Museum in Taipei . Wenlan Pavilion The Wenlan Pavilion ( Chinese : 文瀾閣 ), also known as
48-545: The Zhejiang Provincial Museum. Zhejiang Provincial Administration of Cultural Heritage resumed and became independent of the museum. Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Archaeology was founded in May and separated from the museum in December. In 1983, a cultural heritage warehouse was built at Gudang. In 1984, the museum's natural science section became an independent museum named Zhejiang Museum of Natural History . In 1999,
56-517: The fall of 1945. In 1951, the Ministry of Culture designated the museum a local museum. In 1953, the museum was renamed as Zhejiang Museum. In 1957, Wu Changshuo Memorial Hall was built at Xiling Seal Society . In 1962, the museum added the title of Zhejiang Provincial Administration of Cultural Heritage, which was interrupted during the Cultural Revolution . In 1976, the museum was renamed as
64-750: The museum built the West Lake Gallery. On 22 December 2009, a new building was inaugurated on the West Lake Cultural Square near the Wulin Square , next to the Grand Canal . It has 7,600 square metres (82,000 sq ft) of display space, twice as much as the Gushan building. The Wulin Branch was closed in May 2023, following the opening of its Zhijiang Branch. The museum houses collections, including
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