Shanghai Museum
The Shanghai Museum was first open to the public in December 1952. In 1992, the Shanghai municipal government allocated to the Museum a piece of land at the very center of the city, in the People's Square, as its new site. The construction took about 3 years. It was reopened to the public on October 12th, 1996. Now it is situated at the crossroad of Yan'an Dong Road and Henan Nan Road. The museum has the selection of over 112,000 Chinese cultural relics from the Old Stone Age to modern times, which includes bronzeware, calligraphy, paintings, pottery, porcelain, jadeware, stone carvings, Jiaguwen imperial seals, ancient coins, silk embroidery, dyed fabrics, ivory sculptures, ethnic craftsetc.
Occupying a construction site of over 28,000 square meters, the museum has four exhibition halls holding bronzeware, calligraphy, paintings, pottery, porcelain, jadeware, stone carvings, Jiaguwen imperial seals and more. Many exhibitions from the Shanghai Museum have been put on show to Hong Kong, Japan and America and other countries. These shows include the Bronzeware Exhibition of the Shanghai Museum, Exhibition of Chinese Art in Six Thousand Years, Porcelain Exhibition of the Shanghai Museum, Exhibition of Calligraphy of the Ming and Qing Dynasty, Exhibition of Works by the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, Exhibition of Studies of Scholars in the late Ming Dynasty ect.The Shanghai Museum also do scientific research which has made great achievements. Important research cover the pottery, the application of bromine methane in protecting cultural relics and so on. The museum also compiled such picture books as Pottery and Porcelain Collection at Shanghai Museum, the Painting Collection at Shanghai Museum, Bronzeware Collection at Shanghai Museum at Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Museum and so on.
Entrance Fee: RMB 60
Open Hours: 9:00 to 17:00
Transportation: 574, 112, 123, 71, 934, 145, 46
Subway No.1
Tunnel No.6
