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Jiangsu Art Gallery
Art museum in Nanjing, China From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jiangsu Art Gallery, also known as Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum (Chinese: 江苏省美术馆), is a museum in Nanjing, in Jiangsu province in China. It was founded in 1936, during the Nanjing decade, as China's first state level museum. In 1960, it was formally renamed the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum. In 2010 it re-opened in a new 27,449 square metres (295,460 sq ft) building designed by the German architect studio KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten.[1]
The museum hosts the Nanjing biennale.[2][3]
The gallery is the largest in the Jiangsu Province,[citation needed] presenting traditional and contemporary art pieces of China.
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The building is accessible within walking distance east of Daxinggong Station of Nanjing Metro.
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