编者按民营(私立)美术馆作为国营(公立)美术馆的补充具有不可磨灭的意义和价值。中国民营美术馆自1991年至2008年曾经掀起过四次发展浪潮。早期民营美术馆基本靠企业自有资金的投入,企业效益不好时,便纷纷倒闭。在四次浪潮中,其实,并非每一家民营美术馆都真正注册为公益机构,挂“美术馆”之名, Editor’s Note According to the private (private) Art Museum as a state-owned (public) art gallery supplement has an indelible meaning and value. China’s private art museum has set off four waves of development from 1991 to 2008. Early private art galleries basically rely on the investment of their own funds, business benefits are not good, they have closed down. In the four waves, in fact, not every private art museum is actually registered as a nonprofit organization, hanging in the name of “art museum”