The Suzhou Museum is located on Northeast Street in the historic city of Suzhou, adjacent to the Humble Administrator’s Garden and the Loyalty Palace of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
It is a comprehensive museum that integrates classical aesthetics and modern design.
Its predecessor was the Suzhou Museum established in 1960.
In 2006, the new museum, designed by the architectural master I.
M.
Pei, officially opened to the public and quickly became a cultural landmark in Suzhou.
The museum has a collection of over 40000 cultural relics, covering categories such as calligraphy and painting, ceramics, jade, bronze ware, etc.
It is particularly famous for works of the Wu School of Painting, Song Dynasty silk threads, and Ming and Qing Dynasty handicrafts.
The new building not only continues the traditional garden style of Suzhou, but also reconstructs the spatial language with modern techniques, achieving a dialogue between history and the future.
As a national first-class museum, it is not only a place for displaying cultural relics, but also an art hall that carries the cultural context of Jiangnan and interprets Eastern aesthetics.
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