Where is the Shanghai Museum located?

The Shanghai Museum is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction and a patriotism education base.

The Shanghai Museum is a large museum of ancient Chinese art with an exhibition area of ??2,800 square meters. The museum has a collection of 120,000 precious cultural relics, especially bronzes, ceramics, calligraphy, and paintings. The rich collection and exquisite quality enjoy a high reputation at home and abroad.

The Shanghai Museum was founded in 1952 at the original site of the Horse Racing Club at No. 325 Nanjing West Road, where it began its development. In October 1959, it moved into the old Zhonghui Building at No. 16 Henan Middle Road. During this period, the Shanghai Museum grew from small to large and achieved great development in all aspects. In 1992, the Shanghai Municipal Government made a decision to allocate a prime location in the People's Square in the city center to build a new Shanghai Museum.

The exhibition area of ??the museum is 2,800 square meters. There are Chinese Bronze Exhibition Room, Chinese Ceramics Exhibition Room, Chinese Painting Exhibition Room and Ancient Sculpture Exhibition Room respectively. The museum's "Shanghai Museum Treasured Bronze Exhibition", "Six Thousand Years of Chinese Art Exhibition", "Shanghai Museum Collection of Porcelain Exhibition", "Ming and Qing Calligraphy Exhibition", "Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics Exhibition", "Late Ming Scholars' Study Room" Exhibition" has been exhibited in Hong Kong, Japan and the United States.

Historical evolution

The Shanghai Museum began to be built in April 1950 and opened on December 21, 1952. In the early days of its establishment, the museum was located at No. 325 Nanjing West Road (formerly the Racecourse Building). In 1959, it moved to No. 16 Henan South Road (formerly Zhonghui Bank Building). In 1991, a 4,000-square-meter cultural relics warehouse was built at No. 1118 Longwu Road. In 1992, the Chinese Numismatics Museum, a branch of the Shanghai Museum, was established at No. 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 No. 201, People's Avenue, on the south side of the central axis of People's Square, far opposite the Municipal Government Building. Fine furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

It was partially completed in 1995 and opened on a trial basis. It was fully completed on October 12, 1996 and the opening ceremony was held. The new museum covers an area of ??11,000 square meters, with a construction area of ??38,000 square meters, two floors underground, five floors above ground, and a height of 29.5 meters. The total investment is 570 million yuan. The new building is an architectural shape that combines a square base and a round overhang, which has the meaning of the Chinese "round sky and square earth". The name "Shanghai Museum" was written by Chen Yi, the first mayor of Shanghai after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In the early days of its establishment, it was affiliated to the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee; in July 1953, it was placed under the leadership of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture; in September 1960, the Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee and the Shanghai Museum jointly worked together, with two brands , a team; in January 1987, the Shanghai Museum was upgraded to a deputy bureau-level unit; in October 1988, the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee resumed its independent organizational structure, and the Shanghai Museum was placed under the leadership of the Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee; in September 2010, Shanghai After the establishment of the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau, all the administrative units of the former Municipal Cultural Administration Commission were placed under the leadership of the Cultural Relics Bureau except the Shanghai Museum, which was directly under the leadership of the Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee.

In the early days of the Shanghai Museum (26 photos), the organizational structure of the Shanghai Museum was modeled on the Soviet museum model, adopting a three-department-one-room system, with a storage department, an exhibition department, a group work department, and an office. In 1958, a cultural relics restoration workshop was established; in 1960, a cultural relics protection technology scientific laboratory was established; in June of the same year, the Shanghai Painting and Painting Production Cooperative was merged into the Shanghai Museum, and a calligraphy and painting mounting group was established in the cultural relics restoration workshop. In 1974, in order to strengthen the academic research of the museum, the Exhibition Research Department was established, which consists of five research groups: bronze, ceramics, calligraphy and painting, craftsmanship, display design, and the Archaeological Department. In 1985, each research group was upgraded to a department, and the computer group was upgraded to a laboratory. , and a cultural exchange office was added at the same time. By 1995, in order to adapt the organizational structure to the situation of the new museum construction, corresponding adjustments were made, and 15 departments, 7 offices, and 3 offices were established.

In the past 60 years, the display system of the Shanghai Museum has undergone four major adjustments and modifications. In the early days of the museum's construction, the basic display was divided into ten display rooms according to historical eras, including prehistoric period, Shang Dynasty, Western Zhou Dynasty and modern handicrafts, which concentratedly reflected the overview of the development of Chinese art in past dynasties.

After the museum was moved in 1959, it was arranged according to the stages of social development, with exhibition rooms for primitive society, slave society, early and late feudal society, and modern and modern handicrafts. Since 1966, "0" has been removed from display in the Shanghai Museum. Business activities resumed in 1972, and the comprehensive display was changed to thematic display. Four thematic displays including bronzes, ceramics, calligraphy and painting, and ancient sculptures were successively established, with more than 1,400 exhibits and a display area of ??3,400 square meters. Since 1986, it has invested 6.2 million yuan and renovated 4 displays, giving it a completely new look. In 1996, the new museum was fully completed, including the Bronze Museum, the Ceramics Museum, the Calligraphy Museum, the Painting Museum, the Sculpture Museum, the Jade Museum, the Coin Museum, the Furniture Museum, the Seals Museum, the Minority Crafts Museum and the Hu Huichun Donated Porcelain Museum - temporarily available. The ceramics hall on the second floor and three temporary exhibition halls have a display area of ??12,000 square meters, which is twice the display area of ??the old hall.

Time reference

If you are interested in the museum, it is recommended to spend at least 6 hours to visit Transportation

People’s Square Station of Metro Lines 1, 2, and 8, 574, 112, 123, 71, 934, 145, 46, 167, 145, 18, tunnel line 6, urban sightseeing lines 1 and 2.

Tickets

Free, Chinese explanation machine, 20 yuan/part/6 hours, a deposit is required with valid ID.

Opening hours

9:00-17:00, admission closed at 16:00. Starting from October 9, 2017, the Shanghai Museum will be closed every Monday (see Shanghai Museum Announcement/museum/frontend/articles/I00004092.html for details).

Attraction location

No. 201 Renmin Avenue, Huangpu District, Shanghai (near Wusheng Road)

Extended reading:

·China National First-class museum