Guangdong Museum is new public museum in Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

, capital of Guangdong

Guangdong

Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...

 province, China

China

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.It is located in Zhujiang New Town

Zhujiang New Town

Zhujiang New Town is the area in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, which is between Huangpu Avenue in the north and the Pearl River in the south, and between Guangzhou Avenue as the west and the South China Expressway the east...

 of Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

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It is designed by Rocco Design Architects Limited

Rocco Design Architects Limited

Rocco Design Architects Limited , led by Rocco Yim, is a prominent design architectural firm based in Hong Kong. It is responsible for the design of many iconic buildings in the special administrative region and Guangdong province, including the International Finance Centre, Hong Kong Station and...

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Location

Guangdong museum is situated by the northern banks of the Pearl River

Pearl River (China)

The Pearl River or less commonly, the "Guangdong River" or "Canton River" etc., , is an extensive river system in southern China. The name Pearl River is usually used as a catchment term to refer to the watersheds of the Xi Jiang , the Bei Jiang , and the Dong Jiang...

 in the centre of Tianhe District, the Central Business District of Guangzhou.

History

The museum has recently completed construction in 2010. The museum opened on May 18, 2010 to the public.

Developed by Arup

Arup

Arup is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. The firm is present in Africa, the Americas, Australasia, East Asia, Europe and the...

, the Guangdong Museum covers a total floor area of 66,980 square metres. The five storey building consist of four large exhibition halls with a collection of over 130,000 exhibits.