The National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) is a national museum which dedicated to the collection, research and exhibitions of modern and contemporary artistic works in China. The main building is featuring the styles of ancient Chinese attics and ethnic architecture, with yellow glazed tiles roofing and surrounded by Chinese style corridors and pavilions.
The museum houses more than 100,000 pieces collection of various types, most of which are art creations around the time of establishment of new China. Moreover, there are some masterpieces of late Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China as well. Most of the collections are modern and contemporary works, including masterpieces of renowned contemporary Chinese artists, award-winning works from major art exhibitions, and various folk works. The collections of the museum including the masterpieces of painters like Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo, Huang Binhong, Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Jiang Zhaohe, Situ Qiao, Li Keran, Wu Zuoren, Ye Qianyu, Luo Gongliu and Wu Guanzhong. The museum also collects hundreds of foreign artistic works. On top of that, German collectors Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ludwig had donated 117 pieces of foreign works in 1999, including four oil paintings by Picasso which has added colors to the entire collections of the museum.
Over thousands of influential exhibitions of different kinds featuring renowned local and abroad artists have been held at this museum throughout the past four decades. Apart from influential domestic exhibitions, numerous international exhibitions such as "Original Works Exhibition of 500 Years Collected by Armand Hammer", "Rural Landscape Painting Exhibition of the 19th Century in France", "Original Works Exhibition of Pablo Picasso", "Engraved Painting Exhibition of German Expressionism", "Art Exhibition of Auguste Rodin", "Art Exhibition of Marc Chagall", "Oriental Spirit: Art Exhibition of Joan Miro", "Collection Exhibition of Austrian National Museum", "Grand Exhibition of African Art", "Art Exhibition of Salvador Dali", "Painting Exhibition of French Impressionism",  "300 Years of Russian Arts--State-run Terichekov Fine Arts Museum Treasures Exhibition" (an important exhibition of "Year of Russia" in 2006), "Art in America 300 Years of Innovation", "Italian art- Italian life "(an important exhibition of "Year of Italy" in 2006) and "From Titian to Goya Masterpieces from the Prado Museum"(an important exhibition of "Year of Spain" in 2007) were held here as well. “The Lights of Dun Huang”, held in 2008, set three new records for the number of daily, monthly and singular visitors, attracting 660,000 visitors in two months. The museum has established itself as an important shrine of art bringing aesthetic education to the people.