Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Museum is a large-scale museum of ancient Chinese art, with 12 special exhibition rooms, including 21 categories of bronze ware, ceramic ware, calligraphy, painting, jade tooth ware, bamboo and wood lacquerware, oracle bone, seal and seal, and ethnic minority crafts, among which bronze ware, ceramic ware, calligraphy and painting are the special features.

The collection of ceramics concentrates most of the fine works in the south of the Yangtze River. The collection of primitive celadon is also the characteristic of collection.

Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Museum was founded in 1952. It was originally located in the old happy Horse Club at 325 West Nanjing Road. It moved to Zhonghui building at 16 South Henan Road in October 1959. Now it is located at 201 Renmin Avenue, Huangpu District, south of people's Square in the center of Shanghai.

In August 1993, the construction of the new Shanghai Museum started, and it was fully completed and opened on October 12, 1996. Shanghai Museum has a total construction area of 39200 square meters, covering an area of 11000 square meters. It has two floors underground and five floors above the ground, 29.5 meters high, with a total investment of 570 million yuan. The new building is a combination of square base and round shape, which has the meaning of "round sky and round place" in China. The name of the museum "Shanghai Museum" was written by Chen Yi, the first mayor of Shanghai after the founding of the people's Republic of China.

The Shanghai Museum has 11 special halls and three exhibition halls, with a display area of 2800 square meters. There are nearly one million cultural relics in the collection, including 120000 high-quality cultural relics, which are especially characterized by bronzes, ceramics, calligraphy and painting. It has collected bronzes from Baoji, Henan, Hunan and other places, and is known as "half of the country" in the cultural heritage circle. It is a large-scale museum of ancient Chinese art.

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Historical evolution

In April 1950, the Shanghai museum began to be built.

On December 21, 1952, the Shanghai Museum was officially opened. It is located at 325 Nanjing West Road and is subordinate to the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Administration Committee.

In July 1953, Shanghai Museum was under the leadership of Shanghai Municipal Bureau of culture.

In 1959, he moved to No. 16, Henan South Road (former Zhonghui bank building).

In September 1960, the Shanghai Municipal Council for cultural administration and the Shanghai Museum worked together, with two brands and one team.

In January 1987, the Shanghai Museum was upgraded to the vice bureau level.

In October 1988, the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee resumed its independent system, and the Shanghai Museum was still under the leadership of the Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee.

In 1991, a 4000 square meter cultural relics warehouse was built at 1118 Longwu Road.

In 1992, China Coin Museum, a branch of Shanghai Museum, was established at 1286 Hongqiao Road. In the same year, the Shanghai municipal Party committee and the Shanghai Municipal People's government decided to build a new Shanghai Museum at 201 Renmin Avenue, south of the central axis of the people's Square.

In August 1993, the construction of the new Shanghai museum began.

In 1995, the new museum was partially completed and opened on a trial basis.

On October 12, 1996, the new museum was fully completed and the opening ceremony was held.

In 2016, Weng Wange donated the Southern Song Dynasty painter Liang Kai's portrait of Daojun to the Shanghai Museum.

In October 2018, it was rated as the national research and practice education base for primary and secondary school students.

On March 18, 2020, the construction of the East Hall of Shanghai Museum has resumed.

Exhibition hall display

Shanghai Museum has a total exhibition area of 12000 square meters. On the first floor, there are ancient Chinese bronze Museum, ancient Chinese Sculpture Museum and exhibition hall; on the second floor, there are ancient Chinese Ceramics Museum, temporary tower Ceramics Museum and exhibition hall; on the third floor, there are Chinese calligraphy Museum, Chinese painting Museum and Chinese Printing Museum; on the fourth floor, there are ancient Chinese jade Museum, Chinese coins Museum and Chinese Ming and Qing furniture museum China National Minority Arts and Crafts Museum and exhibition hall.

Ancient bronze Museum: the exhibition area of the ancient Chinese bronze museum is 1200 square meters, in which more than 400 exquisite bronzes are displayed. In the Shang and Zhou dynasties, bronzes were an important symbol of ancient social civilization.

The bronzes collected in Shanghai Museum are characterized by long inscriptions and heavy descriptions. Among the new exhibits are the vessels of the Marquis of Jin Dynasty in the Western Zhou Dynasty and the vessels of the Duke of Qin in the early Qin Dynasty.

Ancient Sculpture Museum: the exhibition hall of ancient Chinese Sculpture Museum covers an area of 640 square meters, including more than 120 exhibits. The basic colors of the exhibition hall are gold, red and black. The lotus petal shape commonly used in Buddhist art is used as the partition wall. The niches in the grottoes are used as the closets and the display forms are exposed. In addition to displaying some wood carvings and pottery sculptures, it mainly displays stone carvings. There are sculptures in the Northern Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou and Sui and Tang Dynasties, as well as southern stone carvings and gold and copper Buddha statues.

Ancient Ceramics Museum: the exhibition hall of ancient China Ceramics Museum covers an area of 1300 square meters, with more than 500 exhibits on display. Among them are painted pottery and grey pottery of the Neolithic age, primitive Celadon of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, spring and autumn and Warring States periods, Celadon of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Tang Sancai of the Tang Dynasty. In song, Jin and Liao dynasties, there were many kilns in various places. In the yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jingdezhen became the center of China's porcelain industry, with underglaze, overglaze and colored glazed porcelain on display.

Calligraphies of past dynasties: the calligraphies of past dynasties in China gather the typical masterpieces of various periods in China and systematically display the historical track of Chinese calligraphy art. The exhibition hall adopts exhibition frame and automatic induction lighting.

Seal Museum of past dynasties: Seal Museum of past dynasties in China is the first Art Museum of seal cutting in China. The exhibition hall covers an area of 380 square meters, with more than 500 seals on display. The whole exhibition is based on the development history of seal art. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, it is a representative and artistic masterpiece selected from the collection of more than 10000 seal relics. In the exhibition hall, with the help of high and low display cabinets, a variety of technical means are applied to make the physical objects and auxiliary display cooperate with each other.

The exhibition hall covers an area of 1200 square meters, displaying more than 120 fine paintings from Tang Dynasty to modern times. Painting has a profound tradition and unique national style. It is a plastic art with brush, ink and silk paper as its main tools and dot line structure as its main means of expression. In order to effectively protect the exhibits and facilitate the audience to enjoy, the exhibition room also uses the induction spotlight with automatic adjustment of lighting.

National Arts and Crafts Museum: with an area of more than 700 square meters, the exhibition hall displays nearly 600 pieces of ethnic minorities' clothing, dyeing, weaving and embroidery, metal crafts, carvings, pottery, lacquerware, rattan and bamboo weaving and mask art. It shows the strange style of the minority arts and crafts.

The exhibition hall covers an area of 730 square meters. Through nearly 7000 pieces of cultural relics, it shows the history of the occurrence and development of Chinese currency and the economic and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. There is also a special room for Central Asian ancient coins donated by Du Weishan and Tan Duanyan on the silk road.

Ming and Qing home furnishing Hall: Furniture hall 700 square meters exhibition hall, displaying more than 100 pieces of China furniture essence in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Ancient jade Museum: China is known as "the country of jade". It has a history of more than 7000 years. In ancient society, jade was not only used for decoration, but also as a symbol of wealth and power, as well as a ritual for rulers to worship heaven and earth and communicate with gods.

Collection quality

The basic orientation of Shanghai Museum is ancient Chinese Art Museum, whose collection, exhibition and research focus on ancient Chinese art. After more than half a century of development, as of the end of 2014, Shanghai Museum has a total of 101925 pieces of cultural relics, including 717 first-class cultural relics, 34505 second-class cultural relics and 107992 third-class cultural relics.

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Scientific research culture

Publications

Since 1976, Shanghai Museum, together with Yugoslavia Youth Publishing House, Japan talk club, Hong Kong Sanlian bookstore, Japan NHK Broadcasting Association Press, Japan ordinary society, Hong Kong Daye company and other publishing institutions, has published 12 large-scale books and monographs, such as Shanghai Museum, blue and white underglaze red, Shanghai Museum collection.

Since 1985, 28 kinds of overseas exhibition catalogues have been published, including comprehensive discussion, specific introduction of each exhibit and several texts. In addition, it has published 92 kinds of drawings and monographs, including paintings in Shanghai Museum, bronzes in Shanghai Museum, porcelain selections in Shanghai Museum, legal books in Shanghai Museum, fans of Ming and Qing Dynasties in Shanghai Museum.

In 1987, to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the founding of the museum, the Shanghai Museum published 10 books, including bronze mirrors, blue and white underglaze red porcelain, yunnantian painting and calligraphy atlas, seal and appreciation of Chinese painters and calligraphers, and Songze, a collection of excavation reports on Neolithic sites.

In 1990, he published a large Atlas of the collection of eminent monks of the fourth day of the Qing Dynasty.

Eight volumes of the collection of coins in Shanghai Museum published in 1994.

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