The Zhejiang West Lake Gallery completed in the autumn of 1999, is situated at the east side of the Zhejiang Museum. It is where the National Art Academy---China's first institution of its kind---used to be. It is a Gothic building erected in the early 1930's on the initiative of Lin Fengmian and Ai Qing. It has preserved the ideal of several generations of Chinese artists: to systematize Chinese fine arts, introduce Western fine arts, blend Chinese and Western art, and produce the art of the times.
　　The gallery consists of a vestibule, salons, a reception hall and four showrooms. In addition to high-grade domestic and foreign art exhibitions, it has two special exhibition halls——Huang Binhong Gallery.
　　Equipped with advanced displaying facilities, the gallery has been an institution devoted to the study and display of art treasures and to academic exchanges and an introduction to the up-to-date development in art.