Long Museum West Bund

Long Museum West Bund is located at the center of the West Bund Culture Corridor in Binjiang, Xuhui District, Shanghai——No.3398, Longteng Avenue. Designed by Liu Yi-chun, a Chinese architect from Atelier Deshaus, the building covers an area of 33,000 square meters with up to 16,000 square meters for exhibition. Long Museum West Bund was officially opened to the public on March 2014.

As world-renowned art collectors, Liu and Wang’s collection is systematically large, covering traditional Chinese art, modern and contemporary Chinese art, “red classics” as well as contemporary art of Asia and Europe. Based on their private collections, the Long Museum is devoted not only to professional art exhibitions, researches, and collections but also to the promotion of cultural education in public. It aims to take up the responsibility of propelling continuous development and inheritance of art; focuses on the contrastive display and study of art, Western and Eastern,ancient and contemporary, while strengthening its local cultural roots;presents the diversity of visual art from a global perspective; systematically showcases the splendid achievements of Chinese art as well as the vitality of contemporary art all over the world; and eventually forges itself into a world-class private museum.

Drawing on the management experience of national and international museums while based on its own needs, the Long Museum is divided into five departments: Academy and Publication, Collection and Exhibition, Business Development, Public Education,and Administration. This division is to ensure the smooth operation of the Museum and provide professional services for art lovers. Ms. Wang Wei, co-founder of the Museum, is the general director, and Mr. Huang Jian is the executive director.

Among the academic advisors of the Long Museum are Li Xianting, an eminent art critic; Shan Guolin, former Director of the Department of Calligraphy and Painting of the Shanghai Museum; Chen Lvsheng, Vice Director of the National Museum of China; Wang Huangsheng, the Director of the Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts; Lv Peng, a contemporary art historian; and Zhao Li, a professor of China Central Academy of Fine Arts. These experts and scholars will offer suggestions and support regarding the operation and development of the Museum.