Yangzhou Museum, Cultural museum in Hanjiang District, China.
Yangzhou Museum, also called the Yangzhou Double Museum, occupies a modern building of 50,000 m² on West Wenchang Road, in front of Mingyue Lake about 4 km west of downtown Yangzhou. It shares its lobby with the China Block Printing Museum and holds seven exhibition halls, among them a Yangzhou history hall, an ancient sculpture gallery and a hall for the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.
The museum's origins lie in the Yangzhou Cultural Relics Museum, founded in 1951, and the Subei Museum planned the same year. The China Block Printing Museum was established in August 2003, and construction of the joint Yangzhou Double Museum began on 18 October 2003. It was completed and opened to the public in 2005, having previously been housed in the 1,500-year-old Tianning Temple.
One hall is devoted to the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, the eighteenth-century painters whose unorthodox brushwork made the city a centre of Chinese painting; Ming and Qing paintings and calligraphy form a separate collection. Other galleries show Yangzhou paper-cut art and ancient Chinese jade, sculpture and earthenware. The museum shares its lobby with the China Block Printing Museum, whose displays trace woodblock printing.
The museum stands on West Wenchang Road in Hanjiang District, in front of Mingyue Lake and about 4 km west of downtown Yangzhou and Slender West Lake. It shares its lobby with the China Block Printing Museum, so the two are visited together as the Yangzhou Double Museum. Seven exhibition halls cover the collections.
The museum shares its entrance area with a neighboring printing museum that focuses on the traditional art of block printing. Visitors can easily move between both institutions and experience a dual exhibition dedicated to traditional craft techniques.
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