Holding 7 heavyweight exhibitions, Pudong Art Museum has been open for two years, attracting over 1 million visitors and children | International | Pudong Art Museum
This year's Dragon Boat Festival holiday, Pudong Art Museum welcomed about 5000 visitors, reaching the highest daily reception volume since its opening. The reporter learned from Pudong that the Pudong Art Museum, located in Pudong Binjiang and close to the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, has attracted more than 1 million visitors and held 7 major exhibitions since its official opening on July 8, two years ago. Among them, "The Outline of Time: Oceanian Art and Heritage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art" will come to an end on August 20th. The museum suggests that citizens and tourists who have left the United States for the first time and are amazed by the masterpieces of Oceania can book an exhibition as soon as possible.
The Pudong Art Museum was designed by Jean Nouvelle, a Pritzker Prize winner and renowned French architect, and his firm. In 2021, the Pudong Art Museum, built as the "last golden treasure" of the Lujiazui Financial City, opened. Someone has calculated that if Pudong uses this land to build commercial buildings, it is likely to receive an annual fiscal tax of billions of yuan. But in the face of economic and livelihood interests, Pudong chose the latter.
After the opening of Pudong Art Museum, it received widespread attention from all parties, and world-renowned museums and art galleries have also submitted olive branches for cooperation. Previously, there was an exhibition titled "Water Domain" in collaboration with the Pudong Art Museum and the French Museum of Capricorn, as well as a collection of over a hundred precious exhibits from the Tate Gallery in the UK titled "Light: Tate Gallery Collection Exhibition". Just this month, the Pudong Art Museum once again achieved full exhibition, with 70 precious masterpieces from nearly 70 art masters, including Raphael, Peter Paul Rubens, Edward Manet, Vincent van Gogh, and others, making their debut in China.
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In order to allow more citizens to get close to these precious global art works, the Pudong Art Museum is almost non-stop all year round, opening its doors to the audience every day except for special circumstances such as the Spring Festival. In addition, the opening time of the museum is from 10:00 to 21:00. Citizens can not only appreciate the charm of art during the day, but also come to the Pudong Art Museum at night to enjoy the riverside night scenery.
It is reported that the "Outline of Time: Oceanian Art and Heritage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art" currently on display in the museum has over 110 precious artworks from nearly 4 centuries, all of which are treasures in the museum's collection. These collections were originally collected by American politician Nelson A. Rockefeller in the 1950s and 1960s and were included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in 1969. This is also the first time in decades that the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the United States, has brought exhibits to places outside the United States for exhibition.
In addition, the Pudong Art Museum has fully leveraged its role as a public education platform, hosting over 60 events in the past two years. The ongoing activity "Art Popularization and Painting" is an international student art education training program jointly initiated by Pudong Art Museum and Tate Art Museum in the UK. The aim is to focus on children's self-expression and artistic growth, create innovative and international social art education brands, and explore children's artistic potential, inspire perception, and cultivate creativity with a "global perspective". The submission period for this art popularization painting is from July 1st to July 15th, and it is open to children nationwide to collect theme creations.
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