A beautiful building, with some lovely trees set against the background of the sky line of Guangzhou. Inside it is pretty great too, a circler designed building with five floors where you can walk around and around and look at all the exhibits.
The first few floors were a little dull to be honest - concentrating on calligraphy and Chinese brush paintings, and without any context for the foreigner it was all a bit strange.
The most interesting part for me was seeing all the sculptures - both modern and classical - some quite quirky and amusing.
Not the best Museum in the world, but definitely a half decent place to while away an...
Read moreA place to show how deep rooted Guangzhou is, not only the “factory of the world”. I love the archirecture, the atmostphere and almost everything about it. There are exhibitions from time to time. It’s free entrance, with some small fee to certain exhibition. Mine was 40 yuan (~6 usd). Worth every penny. I love the lighting they put in each of the exhibition room. Not impressed by the digital art in 3rd floor however. Sometimes family visitors were a bit disruptive, but it’s a public place anyway. The souvernir store was a bit surprise to me as they’re selling alessi...
Read moreA solid art museum with many exhibits to check out. The official name of this place is “Guangzhou People’s Art Center”.
There are many gallery halls available, although not all of them are available at a given time.
Current features are mostly calligraphy and brush art, but there are temporary exhibits as well, such as one on anime and cartoons.
Free admission with a security check. Opens until 5 PM at the moment. Expect to spend at least...
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