Ningbo Museum

Opened on December 5th 2008, Ningbo Museum is now rated as a national first-level museum focusing on the history, culture, arts and traditional customs of Ningbo. It covers a floor space of 30000 square meters.

The museum is designed by Wang Shu, the first Chinese citizen to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2012.The design is a conceptual combination of mountains, water and oceans. Features of traditional Jiangnan residences are integrated into the museum design by decorations of the outer walls with old tiles and cement-covered bamboos. The first floor of the museum is constructed as a whole part, while the building starts to tilt on the second floor, giving the whole building a mountain and also a boat shape. This design alludes to geographical features in Ningbo as well as the importance of maritime trade in its history, thus making the museum a symbol of Ningbo history and culture, as Well as a delicate and creative exhibit in itself.