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The National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) is China's national museum for visual arts, with its focus on collecting, studying and exhibiting of China's modern and contemporary works of fine art. Construction of its main building started in 1958 and finished in 1962, and the Museum was officially open to the public in 1963, with its title-board inscribed by Chairman Mao Zedong himself. The main building of NAMOC follows the style of a traditional Chinese tower, roofed with yellow glazed tiles and surrounded by corridors and pavilions. Covering a space of 22,379 square meters, the building contains 21 exhibition halls on five floors, with a total exhibition space of 8,800 square meters. A modernized storeroom of 4, 100 plus square meters was also built in 1995. The Museum now houses above 60,000 pieces of artwork. Apart from a few ancient paintings, the majority of collections are modern and contemporary works, including representative masterpieces of renowned Chinese painters, award-winning works from China's major art competitions, and a great variety of folk arts. The collections are divided into ten categories, such as: painting, sculpture, ceramics, paper cut, shadow puppets and puppets, etc. There are also 117 pieces of European and American art, including four works of Pablo Picasso, donated by the German collector Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ludwig. These works constitute China's first big collection of Western art works. The Museum also houses some 200 pieces of African wood sculpture and other foreign art works. Over the past four decades, the Museum has held 3,100 exhibitions of fine arts and works of famous artists from home and abroad. Apart from widely-known domestic exhibitions, there have also been many famous international exhibitions, such as: Famous Paintings of 500 Years Collected by Armand Hammer, 19th-Century French Countryside Landscape Painting, Original Works of Pablo Picasso, German Expressionist Print, The Art of Auguste Rodin,The Art of Marc Chagall, The Oriental Spirit of Joan Miro, Collections from Austrian National Museum,Grand Exhibition of African Art, Russian Oil Paintings, The Art of Salvador Dali and Collections from Tokyo Fuji Art Gallery. Having received several millions of visitors, the Museum has established itself as a shrine of art and aesthetic education. The Museum has been widely involved in international art exchanges and cooperation. Collections from the Museum have toured such countries as France, the United States, Japan, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia, Turkey, Greece, Korea and been exhibited many times in the regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The Museum has hosted many major academic seminars, finished several academic research programs and published a large number of art albums and academic monographs, such as China's Fine Arts in the 20th Century--Selected Collections of NAMOC, A Hundred Years of Art--Best of NAMOC Collections, Selected Works of Ren Bonian, Selected Works of Qi Baishi, Selected Works of Huang Binhong and 50 Years of Chinese Art. In May 2002, to reflect adherence to managerial concepts of modern art museums, to keep pace with the new equipment, advanced facilities and recasting itself with an image of new internal and external surroundings, the main building of NAMOC underwent renovation and reconstruction. This commenced on the principle of retaining style, improving standards and functions, utilizing the latest scientific and technological achievements as well as combining humanistic thoughts with environment-friendly ideas. The brand-new NAMOC was reopened to the public in July 2003 with expanded exhibition space and advanced safety, defense, ventilation and lighting equipment. The preparation of the NAMOC 's second phase of expansion is underway. The future NAMOC is expected to connect the existing main construction in the east, border Huang Cheng Gen Site Park in the west, and adjoin Xiaojiao hutong in the north and Wusi Street in the south. The project will add to the museum a new building of 40,000 square meters. It is expected that the NAMOC will becomeone of the world's first-class museum. The museum will be ready to receive the public with brand-new visage and collection, management and services up to international standards.