What exhibitions will Shanghai Museum have in 2020?

In the spring of 2020, the Shanghai Museum will launch an exhibition themed on traditional stone appreciation objects. In the summer there will be an exhibition of cultural relics donated by Dutch collector Hank Ni. In the golden autumn, the Chinese and Western Ceramics Exchange Exhibition was launched. Specific exhibitions include the Shanghai Museum's special exhibition to welcome the Spring Festival in the Year of the Rat, the exhibition of stones donated from Hu Kemin's study room, the Jiangnan Culture and Art Exhibition, the Tang Dynasty "Black Stone" shipwreck cultural relics collection exhibition, Zhao Puchu's calligraphy art exhibition, etc.

1. Special exhibition to welcome the Spring Festival in the Year of the Rat at the Shanghai Museum

The time is from January 14, 2020 to February 23, 2020; the venue is the lobby on the first floor of the Shanghai Museum, the Calligraphy and Painting Hall, Ceramics Museum and Jade Museum.

The rat is the first of the twelve zodiac animals. The arrival of the Year of the Rat symbolizes the beginning of another cycle of reincarnation. Among the various zodiac animals, the rat is not as magical as the dragon or as powerful as the tiger, nor is it as docile as the cattle and sheep, or as loyal as the dogs and horses, but it actually dominates the list and has an extraordinary status. In folk customs, rats are often combined with oil lamps, melons and fruits, etc., and are given the beautiful meaning of prosperity, wealth and fertility. During the New Year festival, there is also a common folk activity in various places where mice marry their daughters to express the joy of the New Year and people's yearning for a prosperous life.

There are also many artistic expressions of this clever little animal in the Shanghai Museum's collections. On the occasion of the New Year of the Rat, the Shanghai Museum will specially select five rat-related cultural relics and present them in a dispersed multi-point exhibition for the first time, encouraging the audience to discover the wonderful stories of each rat through exploration. One of the exhibits is displayed in the lobby, and four are hidden in different corners of the museum's exhibition hall. After the audience looks for their smart figures scattered everywhere, they will receive full blessings for the New Year.

2. Hu Kemin donated his study room for stone exhibition

The time is from April 3 to June 28, 2020, and the venue is the third exhibition hall on the fourth floor of the Shanghai Museum.

The exhibition mainly focuses on the stones donated by the Shanghai Museum’s study room, Ms. Hu Kemin, a Chinese in the United States and a collector of stone appreciation. It is also combined with the theme of displaying the Qing Dynasty Gao Fenghan inscription "Small Square Pot" stone and the stone appreciation. Several related ancient paintings. The exhibition will be divided into three units: "Cutting up ancient treasures", "Collecting roses for the first time", and "Models and Quality". While introducing the culture of stone appreciation, the collector's mentality when playing with stones is also presented.

Chinese culture has had an aesthetic tradition of appreciating natural stones since ancient times. The study stones displayed in the study hall have been favored by scholars and officials in the past dynasties. The batch of study stones donated by Ms. Hu Kemin are mainly ancient stones handed down from ancient times. They not only include classic stone types such as Kun, Ying, Lingbi, and Taihu, but also include a variety of local stone types and other materials such as pottery, copper, jade, and wood. Many of the imitation stone offerings have original or old mounts. Some of the offering stones also have inscriptions by predecessors, which are of great appreciation and collection value.

3. Jiangnan Culture and Art Exhibition

The time is from April 28 to July 26, 2020

The location is the first exhibition hall on the first floor of the Shanghai Museum.

The Jiangnan region has fascinated the entire nation because of its abundant products, beautiful scenery, and numerous celebrities. It is also unique among many regional cultures for its "poetry," "freedom" and "responsibility." The Shanghai Museum has a considerable collection of cultural relics and rich research results in the history and art related to Jiangnan culture.

This exhibition mainly focuses on the collections of the Shanghai Museum, and also borrows from 17 cultural and museum institutions such as the Palace Museum, Liaoning Provincial Museum, Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Nanjing Museum, and Anhui Museum, and selects about 200 precious cultural relics. , on the basis of presenting Jiangnan art and telling the history of Jiangnan, five major sections are used to express the Jiangnan tone of advocating bravery, wisdom, elegance, elegance, peace, etiquette, open-minded and free-spirited Jiangnan temperament, Jiangnan characters who brought peace and prosperity to the world and cultivated morality, The Jiangnan style of spring white snow and the busy life of the city, and the Jiangnan style of being honest, truthful, open and compatible. The cultural relics on display cover bronzes, ceramics, calligraphy and paintings, seals, inscriptions, ancient books, statues, jades, bamboo and wood ivory, lacquerware and many other categories. It is a feast to appreciate the culture and art of Jiangnan.

4. Collection Exhibition of Cultural Relics from the Tang Dynasty "Black Stone" Shipwreck

The time is May 29, 2020

Day - August 30th

The venue is the second exhibition hall on the second floor of the Shanghai Museum.

The "Black Stone" was a trading ship built in Oman during the Tang Dynasty of China. It was loaded with Chinese goods and sailed to West Asia. Unfortunately, it ran aground in the waters of Belitung, Indonesia. It is an important witness to the cultural and commercial exchanges between China and the West in the first half of the ninth century, as well as my country's development of the Maritime Silk Road during the Tang Dynasty.

After salvage at the end of the last century, a wide variety of water vessels were found in the sunken shipwreck of the "Black Stone", including ceramics, gold and silverware, copperware, ironware, coins, glassware and various spices. Among them, the number of ceramics is the largest, reaching an astonishing more than 67,000 pieces, almost covering the products of the most famous kilns in the north and south of the Tang Dynasty, such as Yue Kiln, Xing Kiln, Changsha Kiln, Gongyi Kiln, etc. What is particularly eye-catching is the discovery of three complete pieces of blue and white porcelain from the Tang Dynasty, which strongly proves that China's blue and white porcelain originated from the Tang Dynasty.

This exhibition is the first time that the precious cultural relics of the "Black Stone", which has been sleeping on the seabed for thousands of years, have landed in China and sailed into Shanghai. The exhibition is jointly organized by the Shanghai Museum and the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore. It includes 168 selected precious cultural relics from the water. It also brings together various comparable ceramics, gold and silverware and other representative artifacts unearthed or collected in China, with a view to uncovering the " Under the mysterious and solemn veil of "Black Stone", the audience is invited to appreciate the majestic life of the Tang Dynasty and feel the essence of its open and inclusive culture and art.