The main purpose of the art museum is to provide a space for the exchange, dissemination and educational research of art and culture. In addition to exhibitions and collections of works, it sometimes undertakes activities such as lectures, concerts or poetry readings, and its functions are becoming increasingly specialized and developing in a multi-level direction.
The social significance of the art museum should be to promote and spread art, so that the public can appreciate art works and have interest in art. The significance of the existence of art galleries lies in providing exhibition space, improving the public's cultural and artistic literacy and aesthetic appreciation.
Its function is to collect, preserve, exhibit and study art works, assist art education, and provide opportunities for artists to learn and exchange information.
As the exhibition and exchange center of regional artists' creative achievements, art museum is the basic function of art museum. Whether in town or downtown, art galleries are often the exchange center of the most talented people in a region, and also the place where regional ideas gather.
Art museum undertakes the function of popularizing regional aesthetic education. Since the resumption of college entrance examination in China after the Cultural Revolution, all majors in colleges and universities across the country have developed rapidly and matured, but the majors related to aesthetic education have not developed and expanded accordingly except for a few eight fine arts colleges and a few fine arts departments in colleges and universities.