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At the time of my visit the three exhibition halls are having a special display of Cartier Jewelry, which attracted most of the visitors and allowed me to stroll along the galleries mostly crowd free. That in itself is a rarity in Shanghai.
Shanghai Museum is by far the most organized of all the museums in China I have been to. However, the amount of exhibits is not nearly as much as I have hoped. Shanghai Museum is by no mean a bad museum, but being the most comprehensive museum in all of China, it saddens me as a museum lover and a Chinese. China's 4,000 plus years of history should allow us to have a top notch museum, piles with varied and abundant amount of artifacts, which can be even a greater collection of art and historical importance than the Lourves, Uffizis, and British Museums of the world. But after so many years of internal turmoil and destruction brought by foreign powers, much of these precious treasures were either destroyed or stolen. The bigger concern, though, is the lack of concern and sensitivity displayed by the Chinese government and citizens alike toward the preservation of the past. They naively believe these cultural milestones will never run out, thus resulting in a general impractical and procrastinate effort to preserve these pieces of identity. Their interest, as shown by the huge crowds in the jewelry halls, is mostly money and business related.
When will the day come, the day when Shanghaiese will be proud because their city is the home to a museum that chronically illustrates the complexity of the Chinese civilization, instead of the founding of another tasteless building in Pudong?
Picture Caption: This Buddhism scripture, made in the 14th century, had inscription of Chinese characters that are the same as today's. Leave a Comment Directions: People's Square Station (Metro Line 1); public buses 17, 18, 20, 23, 37, 46, 48, 49, 123, 145, 916 Opening Hours: 9:00 - 17:00 Admission: 20RMB per adult
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The Shanghai Museum was established in 1952 and relocated twice before finding a permanent home at its present location, south of the centrally located People's Plaza, in 1996. More than 120,000 precious and rare works of art in 21 categories make the Shanghai Museum the most remarkable cultural institution in the city.
The Shanghai Museum is a four-storied building that occupies a total area of 39,200 square meters.
Altogether, there are eleven special galleries and three exhibition halls in the Shanghai Museum:
The Ancient Chinese Bronze Gallery, the Ancient Chinese Sculpture Gallery, the Ancient Chinese Ceramics Gallery, Zande Lou Ceramics Gallery, the Chinese Painting Gallery, the Chinese Calligraphy Gallery, the Chinese Seal Gallery, the Ancient Chinese Jade Gallery, the Chinese Ming and Qing Furniture Gallery, the Chinese Coin Gallery, and last but not least the Chinese Minority Nationalities' Art Gallery. Leave a Comment Directions: People's Square Station (Metro Line 1); public buses 17, 18, 20, 23, 37, 46, 48, 49, 123, 145, 916
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This is truly a must see if you are in Shanghai. The quirky, but stunning modern building in Renmin Square, holds a staggering collection of artefacts and is a real cross section of Chinese civilization: it is simply, and undoubtedly, the best museum of Chinese history in China. Although, having said that, the smaller scale of the Nanjing Museum is easier to assimilate.
Every museum manager and director in China should be taken to the Shanghai Museum and told to "beat that!"
There are numerous general explanatory panels in Chinese and English that set the context for what you see. The artefacts and art are well lit, well labelled and well chosen.
The bronzeware hall is comprehensive and covers the development of that art form superbly, even having step-by-step models of the various casting processes.
The ancient sculptures exhibition is laso excellent, but maybe suffers a little by some haphazard arrangements. It is a little tricky visualizing the tranbsition of the early Gandharan into the more northern Asian style. Some of the individual items are just magnificent, and compare favourably with the great Western sculptures in the Uffizzi or the Louvre.
I didn't 'do' the whole museum, because I got a bit 'bombed out' by the quality in these two first rooms, but the excellent guide book promises similar quality right up to the top of the building.
There is a superb bookshop on the ground floor, and some excellent merchandise and replicas (are you reading this, Shandong Provincial Museum staff?).
Wonderful.
This museum is a benchmark for museums in China.
NOTE: There is some good extra information at http://www.jasonkaufman.com/articles/new_shanghai_museum.htm Leave a Comment Phone: 021 6327 0276Directions: People's Square Station (Metro Line 1); public buses 17, 18, 20, 23, 37, 46, 48, 49, 123, 145, 916 The museum opens 9am - 5pm (but 8pm on Saturdays)
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This is one of the biggest and best museums in China. It is housed in a spacious, airconditioned building, which was completed in 1994.
There are rooms and rooms full of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, furniture, regional costumes, coins, seals, bronzes, jade, calligraphy and almost anything else you can think of that could possibly be in a Chinese museum!
Allow at least half day to see it all. It's not the sort of place you can take in on a whirlwind sightseeing tour.
Opening hours:
Sun-Fri 9am-5pm
Sat 9am-8pm
Admission:
Adilts Y20
Children & students Y5 Leave a Comment Phone: 6372 3500Directions: People's Square Station (Metro Line 1); public buses 17, 18, 20, 23, 37, 46, 48, 49, 123, 145, 916
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This is the largest museum in Shanghai and houses a collection of 120,000 pieces of cultural and historical relics in 10 exhibition halls over four floors.
There are English explanations and detailed notes in displays that you can take and read at your leisure about Chinese ceramics, Ancient Chinese Sculpture, paintings, bronze and coins.
Ticket cost: 20 Yuan
Open from 9:00am -17:00pm. After 4:00pm no entry. Directions: People's Square Station (Metro Line 1); public buses 17, 18, 20, 23, 37, 46, 48, 49, 123, 145, 916Website: http://shanghaimuseum.net
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