Shanghai Museum
The Shanghai Museum, established in 1952, is a large museum famous for its collection of ancient Chinese art in the world. The museum building, with two floors underground and five floors on the ground, covers 38,000 square meters and is 29.5 meters high. It has 120,000 pieces of works of art in the collection with ancient Chinese bronze, ceramics and calligraphy and paintings as its special feature.
The museum style and presentation surround visitors with artifacts demonstrating ancient wisdom and philosophy. The exterior design of the round dome and the square base symbolizes the ancient idea of a round heaven and a square land.
Now the museum has ten monographic galleries of bronze, ceramics, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, seal, jade, furniture, coins and minority nationalities’ art, three special galleries for donated ceramics, three exhibition halls to hold temporary exhibitions and multimedia studio. The works of art shown in the galleries are mainly masterpieces of Chinese cultural heritage, spanning from the Neolithic Age through Ming and Qing dynasties until modern times. Exhibitions from museums and institutions of other Chinese provinces and cities as well as of foreign countries, are held now and then at the three exhibition halls.
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