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Suzhou Museum
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Suzhou Museum (Sūzhōu Bówùguǎn). 9AM-5PM, Mondays closed. Designed by I.M. Pei, whose family came from Suzhou. Pei lived most of his life in the US and was a very successful architect there. Perhaps his best-known work is the glass pyramid outside the Louvre in Paris. He has also designed a number of museums including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. He came out of retirement in his 80s to return to Suzhou to create a museum that married his modernist sensibility with his sense of the Jiangnan home where he was born. South of the Yangzi was an area (Jiangnan) distinguished by the sophistication of its intellectual classes and aesthetic sensibilities. Do not miss the recreation of the Ming Dynasty scholar's study. Free.
