Guangzhou Art Museum is a special art museum, located in the east of Zhenhai Tower in Yuexiu Mountain. Its main building is blue bricks and green tiles with heavy cornices. It is a palace-style building that imitates the Wenhua Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Formerly known as Zhongyuan Library, Guangzhou Art Museum was established and opened to the public in February 1957. There are more than 300 square meters of exhibition halls and 100 square meters of famous galleries. There are more than 7,000 paintings in Guangzhou Art Museum, including Mo Zhu Tu by Wen Tong in the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhu Tu by Li Yan in the Yuan Dynasty, Twelve Scenes of Wumen by Shen Zhou in the Ming Dynasty, Birds Gathering by Lin Liang and Poems by Shi Tao in the Qing Dynasty. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Guangdong painters have collected the most paintings and calligraphy works. Guangzhou Art Museum not only exhibits its own collections, but also holds collections exchange exhibitions, organizes exhibitions of contemporary artists' fine arts works and donated collections.
The museum has published 3 volumes of selected Tibetan paintings, Ming and Qing paintings 1 volume, and picture books of Shen Zhou, Shi Tao, Badashanren and Ju Lian. Outside the exhibition hall, the stele gallery around the mountain in front of the square was built in 1987. The 1 18 square was engraved with famous calligraphy seals from Jin Dynasty to Qing Dynasty. The stele gallery was built on the east side of the museum site in 1998, and the 58th square was engraved with "Yi Fen" stone carvings, all of which were from Haishan Fairy Hall in the late Qing Dynasty.