Zhejiang Provincial Museum

The Provincial Museum Zhejiang (abbreviation :浙江省 博物馆, traditional characters :浙江省 博物馆; Pinyin: Zhèjiāngshěng bówùguǎn; engl Zhejiang Provincial Museum, abbreviated ZPM. ) Is located on the Gushan Island (孤山), the largest island of the West Lake in the city Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and has the address Shan Lu 25 It is clear from the Zhejiang West Lake Museum, founded in November 1929.

It carries a wide variety of arts and cultural treasures, including recent archaeological finds from the Neolithic Hemudu culture.

Holdings of the ZPM

It houses more than 100,000 objects. Including ceramics, lacquer, wood and bone artifacts of Hemudu culture (7000-4500 BC / 5000-3300 BC); Jade artifacts and silks of the Liangzhu culture (3400-2000 BC), bronze equipment from the State Yue越, Seladonkeramiken the Yue kilns of the Tangzeit, the Longquan Kiln of the Song of Time and the government's own kilns of the Southern Song. It can be found bronze mirror from Huzhou and calligraphy and paintings by local artists from the Ming and Qing period and other important cultural treasures.

External sites ZPM

In 1999, the ZPM the "Zhejiang West Lake Art Gallery " (浙江 西湖 美术馆, Zhejiang Xihu Měishùguǎn ), a gallery originally founded by Lin Fengmian on West Lake, east of ZPM. Furthermore, in the located at the "Square of Culture" in Hangzhou Dependanzen the ZPM, the " Wulin Museum " and the " Museum of Revolutionary History of Zhejiang ," the areas of propaganda, education and leisure activities integrated. The ZPM subject to the exhibitions in the residences of famous cultural institutions from Hangzhou. Thus, the Memorial Hall to the painter Huang Binhong, the former residence of Sha Menghai and Chang Shuhong Art Hall

The ZPM leads annually about 40 temporary exhibitions by, partly with Chinese themes, some with international exhibitions, including from Germany, France, Switzerland, Japan and Singapore.