He Xiangning Art Museum

He Xiangning Art Museum

何香凝美术馆
He Xiangning Art Museum
Established	1997 (1997)
Location	9013 Shennan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China
Coordinates	22.539281°N 113.988121°E / 22.539281; 113.988121
Type	Art museum
Owner	Shenzhen government
Website	www.hxnart.com

He Xiangning Art Museum
Simplified Chinese	何香凝美术馆
Traditional Chinese	何香凝美術館
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hé Xiāngníng Měishùguǎn Yue: Cantonese Jyutping ho4 hoeng1 jing4 mei5 seot6 gun2

He Xiangning in 1909, holding her son Liao Chengzhi

He Xiangning Art Museum (Chinese: 何香凝美术馆) is an art museum in Nanshan, Shenzhen, China.

Construction of the museum started in 1995 and was opened in 1997. The museum is named after He Xiangning, former leading person in the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang (KMT), wife of assassinated leader of the KMT left, Liao Zhongkai, mother of the late Overseas Chinese Commission Head Liao Chengzhi, and an amateur artist. It is the first national art museum in China to be named after a person. Its collections include some artworks by He Xiangning herself and it holds regular exhibitions and display of various contemporary art.^[1]

General Location

The museum is located in the Overseas Chinese Town (OCT) area. Before the establishment of the Shenzhen SEZ, the Overseas Chinese Town area was a State Farm administered by the Overseas Chinese Commission. The relationship between He Xiangning and the then head of the Overseas Chinese Commission, her son Liao Chengzhi, is one reason for the naming of the gallery after her. The gallery is near a number of tourist sites:

• Window of the World
• Splendid China Folk Village
• Yitian Holiday Plaza

References

1. "Introduction" (in Chinese). He Xiangning Art Museum. Archived from the original on 2 March 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2016.

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