Recently, a batch of new cultural landmarks has started or is scheduled to open in Guangzhou, including museums, an art centre, an opera house, and a cultural centre. In the future, residents will have access to the following destinations for leisure and a first-rate cultural experience.
Bai'etan Greater Bay Area Art Center
The Bai'etan Greater Bay Area Art Center will be the new venue for the Guangdong Museum of Art, the Guangdong Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Center, and the Guangdong Literature Museum. It is expected to be completed in the second half of this year.
(Photo: Guangzhou Liwa Fabu)
There will be an intangible cultural heritage theatre for the performances of traditional music, dance, drama, opera, and other intangible cultural heritage projects.
(Photo: Guangzhou Liwa Fabu)
Another literature theatre will host drama productions, documentaries, film appreciation events, and other activities. In addition, a lecture hall of the art museum will be set up at the art centre.
Guangzhou Cultural Center
The Guangzhou Cultural Center has already completed its construction and will be open for booking soon. Situated at the southern end of the city's central axis, it was designed as a Lingnan-style garden. The buildings are scattered around the Haizhu Lake like stones and assembled into various courtyards, forming a layout of "a garden within a garden". Meanwhile, the typical landscape elements of the Lingnan region, "mountains, rivers, fields, and ponds", are integrated into the venue's design.
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Furthermore, the centre integrates public performances, training, exhibitions, creation, research and exchanges, protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, and other functions.
(Photo: Haizhu Fabu)
Guangzhou Cantonese Opera House
The new site of the Guangzhou Cantonese Opera House opened in the Zhujiang New Town in January this year. Its design was inspired by a kind of Chinese wedding dress, which is the heroine's costume in Cantonese opera.
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Covering an area of about 40,000 square meters, the opera house includes a 1,200-seat hall, a 500-seat hall, three 60-seat small halls, a cultural activity centre, and a large outdoor tea room. It is also connected to the adjacent Hung Sin-nui Arts Centre through a corridor.
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Furthermore, the opera house adopts various technological means to improve acoustic comfort, with exquisite stage decoration to provide the audience with the best visual and auditory effects.
Guangzhou Museum of Art (Guangzhou Art Museum)
Guangzhou Museum of Art (GZAM) will move to the new Guangzhou Art Museum on Yizhou Road in Haizhu District this year. Currently, more than 90 percent of the total workload of new venue construction has been completed, and it is scheduled to open before the end of 2023.
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The new museum is designed with the theme of "Blooming Kapok in Water", with a total area of nearly 80,000 square meters. It will open two digital exhibition halls and an online art museum. Visitors can better appreciate the exhibits through virtual human and 3D modelling technologies.
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Author: Holly, Crystal (intern)
Video: Zoey, Yang Qi, Chen Chong, Chen Jiehao
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