CHINA’S e-commerce giant JD.com has announced that its JD Museum will open at the company’s new headquarters in the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base, Nanshan District, at the end of 2027, according to the museum’s official website.

The museum will have a total floor area of more than 10,000 square meters and focus on contemporary visual and performing arts and culture. Facilities will include spaces for live performance, immersive installations, exhibitions, participatory workshops, and creative retail.

Robin Peckham, former co-director of Taipei Dangdai between 2019 and 2025 and editor-in-chief of magazine LEAP from 2014 to 2019, will lead the museum. Peckham has curated exhibitions for institutions including UCCA, the Fosun Foundation, and K11 Art Foundation.

The museum’s programming will treat art as a cross-disciplinary experience, addressing contemporary concerns such as technology, ecology, and urbanism. Emphasizing a balance between technological innovation and human experience, the museum plans to increase accessibility for young people and the local community, and to support artists and audiences through exhibitions, education, research, publishing, commissions, and collecting.

JD.com’s Shenzhen headquarters, designed by Büro Ole Scheeren with spatial design by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, is currently under construction and described as a “Scenic City.”

In the two years leading up to the museum’s opening, the institution will roll out a public art program — including workshops and touring exhibitions — to engage artists, curators, architects, JD employees, and the public.

(Cao Zhen)