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The world-renowned Shanghai Museum, a museum of ancient
Chinese art, was established in December, 1952 at
the West Nanjing Road which was once the club of the
Shanghai horse race course. In 1959, it moved to 16
Henan South Road.
Shanghai Museum has the research departments of Chinese
bronze, ceramics, paintings and calligraphy, and artifacts,
and a scientific laboratory for preservation of cultural
relics, with researchers and associate researchers
over fifty in number.
With a collection of over 120,000 pieces of cultural
relics in twelve categories, Shanghai Museum is especially
famous for its treasures of bronzes, ceramics and
paintings and calligraphy.
As for the scholarly research, Shanghai Museum has
published over 80 special museum catalogues. Nineteen
research subjects of the cultural relics preservation
have won awards.
The new Shanghai Museum has set up ten special galleries
of bronze, calligraphy,
ceramics, furniture,
jades, minority
art, numismatics, paintings,
sculptures, and seals,
together with a special gallery of donated relics
and three temporary exhibition halls.
Shanghai Museum has installed advanced security and
fire alarm systems, educational services, a computerized
library, an automation system. Besides this, we have
facilities for multi-media guide, an information center,
a High Definition Graphics system, an audio tour,
the lecture room is equipped with a system of spontaneous
interpretation. The library in the museum has 200,000
volumes of books in collection.
Gallery of Ancient Chinese Bronze, Gallery of Ancient
Chinese Ceramics and Gallery of Ancient Chinese Sculpture
in Shanghai Museum has been open to the public since
December 30, 1995. By October 1996, the complete Shanghai
Museum will be open to the public. We warmly welcome
visitors from home and abroad to Shanghai Museum.
Gallery of Ancient Chinese Bronze
Gallery of Ancient Chinese Bronze shows about 440
pieces of variou kinds of ancient Chinese bronzes,
including the bronze wine vessel, food vessel, musical
instrument, water vessel, weapon and some other vessels
from the Xia Dynasty (ca, 21st century B.C.>to the
Warring States Period (221 B.C.) The distinctively
shaped and beautifully decorated bronzes, some with
historic inscriptions, is an important mark of ancient
Chinese civilization and a marvelous treasure of the
Chinese cultural heritage respected highly in the
world.
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Gallery of Ancient Chinese
Calligraphy
Gallery of Ancient Chinese Calligraphy shows eminent
personages' original handwritings. Chinese calligraphy
can be traced back to Shang Dynasty and it matured
in Dongzhou Dynasty. Official script was popular in
Han Dynasty, while cursive script, regular script
and running hand emerged during Weijing Period. The
latter three reached the peak in Tang and Song Dynasty.
All the later scripts were pattered after them and
developed with their distinguished styles. About 100
essential pieces of calligraphy that are displayed
here mirror the history of the art of Chinese handwriting.
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Gallery of Ancient Chinese
Ceramics
Gallery of Ancient Chinese Ceramics displays over
500 pieces of various fine ceramics from the Neolithic
times to the end of the Qing Dynasty. A large number
of them are the high-quality products from famous
porcelain making kilns, some have never been shown
before and some are very rare in the whole world.
This is comprehensive ceramics gallery introducing
the Chinese ceramic history, the Chinese ceramic art,
the connoisseurship knowledge of the Chinese ceramics,
and the scientific researches on the Chinese ceramics.
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Gallery of Chinese Furniture
in Ming and Qing Dynasty
Gallery of Chinese Furniture in Ming and Qing Dynasty
displays over 100 pieces of various styles of furniture
made in the Ming and Qing Dynasty. Furniture made
in Ming Dynasty is famous for simple modeling, gracious
line and well-balanced scale; while furniture made
in the Qing Dynasty is noted for their extravagant
material, splendid decoration. There are also some
models of valuable furniture and wooden buried warrior
figure of Ming Dynasty unearthed in the area around
Shanghai. In the gallery there is also a hall and
a study room imitative of the style of that time.
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Gallery of Ancient Chinese Jades
Gallery of Ancient Chinese Jades displays over 400 pieces
of various jade wares and treasure. There are jade wares
and treasure used on ceremonious occasions at Hongshan
Culture and Liangzhu Culture during the Neolithic Age.
The heyday of Chinese jade ware is Shang Dynasty. Jade
ware made in Zhou Ages is the most elegant, its style
had been modeled after till Han Dynasty. After Donghan
Ages, the technique of jade ware making went downhill.
In Tang and Song Dynasty, jades were more used in daily
life, which is believed to be well accepted among the
users.
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Gallery of Arts and Crafts by
Chinese Minority
Gallery of Arts and Crafts by Chinese Minority shows
about 600 pieces of work of art, such as dress and
personal adornment, dyed and woven embroidery, metal
art ware, sculpture, ceramics, bamboo wares used by
the minority. Different styles, remarkable color and
creative conception embody the pursuit of happier
life. All these form an essential part of Chinese
tradition in the field of art.
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Gallery of Ancient Chinese
Numismatics
Gallery of Ancient Chinese Coins shows the historical
change and development of Chinese coins. The gallery
displays about 7,000 pieces exhibits inclusive of
bronze coins(which has the longest history), gold,
silver, black copper, iron coins and paper money.
At the same time, there are some foreign gold, silver,
copper coins that were circulated widely in China.
For the time being, this is the largest and most complete
exhibition of Chinese coins.
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Gallery of Ancient Chinese
Paintings
Gallery of Ancient Chinese Paintings showcases about
140 pieces of masterpiece paintings, ranging famous
from original paintings in Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty
and Yuan Dynasty to the masterpieces of Zhe School,
Wumen School and Songjiang School in Ming Dynasty,
four masters, four monks and Yangzhou School in the
early period of Qing Dynasty and Haishang School at
the end of Qing Dynasty. These works with varied styles
and ingenuity mirror the tradition and evolution of
Chinese culture. The decoration of the gallery embodies
ancient architectural style and scholar's style.
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Gallery of Ancient Chinese Seals
Gallery of Ancient Chinese Seals displays more than
500 pieces of seals that could be traced as far back
as Zhou Dynasties and as late as Qing Dynasty. It
is a fine selection of the 10,000 pieces of seals
the museum houses. These differently styled signets
reflects the long history of seals in China and embodies
profound cultural sophistication of the nation.
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Gallery of Ancient Chinese
Sculpture
Gallery of Ancient Chinese Sculpture presents 127
pieces of ancient Chinese stone, wood, clay, pottery
and cast-bronze sculptures from the Warring States
period to the Ming Dynasty. The whole gallery is divided
into four sections with the Chinese Buddhist sculpture
and figurine-modeling art as the main subject.
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Free admission for students (groups):
Saturday: 17:00--19:00
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