Xu Beihong Museum

Xu Beihong Museum is a museum dedicated to the life and work of one of the first Chinese artists of the XX century, who managed to combine national and European artistic traditions. Xu Beihong is rightly called the father of modern Chinese painting.

The museum consists of an introductory hall and seven exhibition halls. Its total area is 2,700 square meters. The museum exhibits more than 1,200 works of the great painter, as well as more than 10,000 books and paintings collected by Xu Beihong during his lifetime. In this extensive collection you can see rare masterpieces of modern Chinese painting. In the introductory hall, Xu Beihong's self-portraits are shown.