Need. Wuxi Art Museum was formerly known as Wuxi Painting and Calligraphy Institute. 1979 65438+On February 7th, Wuxi Painting and Calligraphy Institute was established with the approval of Wuxi. On September 25th, 2004, the new address of No.79 Xianqian West Street in Chong 'an District was completed, with an office area of 1 135 square meters. 2011June, Wuxi Painting and Calligraphy Institute was renamed Wuxi Art Museum (Wuxi Painting and Calligraphy Institute). Now it is a public welfare cultural institution under the Wuxi Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Television Tourism. Wuxi Art Museum (Wuxi Painting and Calligraphy Institute) takes "inheritance, innovation, harmony and development" as its motto, and has the functions of holding exhibitions, conducting academic research, collecting fine arts, conducting aesthetic education, and promoting cultural and artistic exchanges and services. There are exhibition department, creative research department, collection and storage department, public education department and administrative office in the art museum. Wuxi Art Museum (Wuxi Painting and Calligraphy Institute) has followed and adhered to the direction of "letting a hundred flowers blossom" and "killing two birds with one stone" since its establishment, and has made fruitful achievements in works creation and theoretical research. It has increasingly become an important window for cultural exchanges and an important place for people's spiritual life in Wuxi. [