The Huang Binhong exhibition displays his traditional Chinese paintings of mountains and waters, flowers and birds, and his calligraphy.

Chakwan Lu's exhibition shows his 178-piece personal collection that has been donated to the museum, including pottery, bronze works, lacquer work, calligraphy and paintings from home and abroad.

The painting series "Looking Back to the History in Zhejiang Province" is much bigger than any in the other collections, so some of them are put in the 8.5-meter-high exhibition hall which extends through the second and third floors, and will be used to exhibit larger works.

To protect those large artworks, Zhejiang Art Museum has put them in wooden frames fixed on the walls rather than hanging them in the usual manner.

The walls are composed of six layers of cork so that nails and screws can be removed easily and the hole on the wall return to its former state, according to the museum's vice director, Si Shunwei.

You may feel a bit cool when wandering around the museum - the temperature is kept below 25 degrees Celsius to protect certain delicate and sensitive artworks. The paper works of Miro, for example, require a temperature of between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius.

To ensure the safety of the works, the museum has spent more than 7 million yuan (US$1 million) on 27 Glasbau Hahn display cases which control temperature and humidity. The largest one is 55.5 meters long and 4 meters high and took eight German workers more than a month to make.

Such high-tech cases have been used to protect antiques, relics and even mummies in Egypt, but the Zhejiang Art Museum is the first to use them in China.

It was no wonder that when the representative from the Miro Foundation in Barcelona visited the Zhejiang Art Museum, he was amazed at the new building and thought highly of it as one of the top, even compared with European museums.

Zhejiang Art museum has about 10,000 square meters of public facility space which includes a bookstore, cafe, an art documentation center and children art world so that kids can paint under the instruction of professionals.