Introduction of Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Museum was founded in 1952. Its original site is the old horse racing association at 325 Nanjing West Road. Moved into Zhonghui Mansion at No.6 Henan South Road/KLOC-0 on June, 1959, and is now located at No.201Renmin Avenue, Huangpu District, south of People's Square in Shanghai Center.

1In August, 1993, the new Shanghai Museum started construction, and it was fully completed and opened on June 1996 and 12. Shanghai Museum has a total construction area of 39,200 square meters, covering an area of 1. 1 0,000 square meters, with two floors underground and five floors above ground, with a total investment of 570 million yuan.

The new building is a combination of square base and circular overhangs, which means "a round place" in China. The name "Shanghai Museum" was inscribed by Chen Yi, the first mayor of Shanghai after the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Exhibition hall introduction

1. Ancient Bronze Museum: The exhibition hall area of the Ancient Chinese Bronze Museum is1200m2, displaying more than 400 exquisite bronzes. Bronze ware is an important symbol of ancient social civilization in Shang and Zhou Dynasties in China.

2. Ancient Sculpture Museum: The exhibition hall of China Ancient Sculpture Museum covers an area of 640 square meters, with more than 20 exhibits/kloc-0. The exhibition hall is dominated by gold, red and black, with lotus petals commonly used in Buddhist art as partition walls, niches in cave temples as closets and exposed display forms.

3. Gallery of Past Dynasties: The exhibition hall covers an area of 1.200m2, and * * * displays more than 20 fine paintings of past dynasties1.20, reflecting various painting categories from Tang Dynasty to modern times. Painting has a profound tradition and unique national style. It is a plastic art with pen and ink, silk paper as the main tools and dot-line-surface structure as the main means of expression.

4. National Arts and Crafts Museum: The exhibition hall covers an area of more than 700 square meters, and displays nearly 600 pieces of ethnic costumes, dyeing and weaving, embroidery, metal crafts, sculptures, pottery, lacquerware, rattan and bamboo weaving, mask art, etc. Showed the peculiar style of minority handicrafts. ?

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