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Shanghai
Museum
 Shanghai
Museum is a treasure house of Chinese cultural
essence with a rich collection of 120,000
valuable antique items. Together with the
museums in Beijing, Xian, Nanjing, the four
are honored as the China's four major museums.
Shanghai Museum is especially famous for
its treasures of bronzes (bells, knives,
axeheads, chariot ornaments), ceramics,
Chinese calligraphy and traditional paintings.
Shanghai Museum is a must-see
for foreign visitors to Shanghai. It was
built in the 1930s, formerly occupied by
Zhong Hui Bank owned by a Shanghai celebrity
Yuesheng Du. In 1952, it was converted into
a museum. The five big gilt characters on
the lintel were written by Yi Chen, the
first mayor of Shanghai after the founding
of new China.
 Occupying
a land of 0.8 hectares with two floors underground
and five floors above in height of 29.5
meters, the new museum building was erected
in September 1994 and most of the facilities
were installed in 1995. It was entirely
opened on October 12.
The new Shanghai Museum has
ten special galleries of bronze, calligraphy,
ceramics, furniture, jades, minority art,
paintings, sculpture, seal carvings, coins
and arts and crafts, together with a special
gallery of donated relics and three temporary
exhibition halls.
 Shanghai
Museum has installed advanced security and
fire alarm systems, educational services,
a computerized library and an automation
system. Besides this, Shanghai Museum has
facilities for multimedia guide, an information
center, a High Definition Graphics system,
an audio tour, the lecture room equipped
with a system of spontaneous interpretation.
You can check out a device that allows you
to hear a description of an item after punching
in the item number. The audio tour is available
in eight languages. The library in the museum
has 200,000 volumes of books in collection.
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