The China Arts and Crafts Museum was established in 1990, and on February 5, 2022, the new museum was officially opened to the public, and at the same time, it was approved to add the name of "China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum". The first exhibition of the museum was "Chinese Treasures - Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage and Arts and Crafts Exhibition", which received rave reviews and enthusiastic responses.
The China Arts and Crafts Museum has a construction area of 91,126 square meters, a length of 201 meters (north and south), a width of 75 meters, a height of 50 meters, 6 floors above ground and 2 floors underground, with 7 exhibition halls and 1 multi-functional hall. Our museum is located on the north extension of the central axis of Beijing, adjacent to the dragon-shaped water system of the Olympic Park in the west, the History Exhibition Hall of the Communist Party of China in the east, the "Bird's Nest" and "Water Cube" in the south, and the China Science and Technology Museum in the north. The address is No. 16 Hujing East Road.
The architectural design concept of the China Arts and Crafts Museum draws on the scale and proportions of the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City, and the vertical and horizontal structures are symmetrical. The façade is in three sections, divided into a stone layer, a transparent platform layer and a volley multi-treasure pavilion from bottom to top, symbolizing the "three talents" concept of harmony and balance between heaven, earth and man in traditional Chinese culture. The brown bronze metal grille structure of the façade is extracted from the form of the flower window pattern and the Bogu frame in the traditional building, which organically integrates the traditional pattern elements and the modern architectural framework, making the overall building solemn and full of smart and transparent aesthetic temperament.
Collection: The current collection covers many categories of arts and crafts, mainly jade carving, stone carving, bamboo, wood carving, tooth and horn bone carving, weaving, dyeing and embroidery, ceramics, lacquer art, metal craft, glass, thangka and ethnic folk (comprehensive) eleven categories, mainly created after the founding of New China, of which 1895 sets are exquisite arts and crafts. Among them, 4 large-scale jadeite art treasures "Daiyue Wonders", "Fragrant Jurui", "Qunfang Range Rover", "Four Seas Tenghuan", its large volume, good material, ingenious conception, fine skills, can be called a national treasure level of rare treasures, in 1989, the first award order to give a commendation to the creative collective.
The exhibition hall on the first floor is the first part of the exhibition, which contains works by famous calligraphers and painters from the college's collection. The second part of the exhibition is the exhibition hall and corridor on the second floor, which contains cliff carvings and stone rubbings of Han portraits. The exhibition hall on the fourth floor is the third part of the exhibition, the content of which is the Japanese Ergensha fine printing of ancient painting masterpieces at the back of the main building of the college, the art museum has four other exhibition halls, one is the school history exhibition hall, and the remaining three are the exhibition hall of the college's collections. The first exhibition of the Art Museum of the China Academy of Art was the "Exhibition of Calligraphy and Painting from the Collection of the China Academy of Art".
The treasures of the China Arts and Crafts Museum are the jade beam flower basket "Qunfang Range Rover", the jade Shanzi "Daiyue Wonders", the jade flower "Fragrant Jurui" and the jade interstitial "Four Seas Tenghuan", as shown below.
Size: 1775cm×34.7cm×112cm