Shanghai Museum

the whole building of  Shanghai Museum	Da ke Ding(大克鼎)----the most important exhibit in Shanghai Museum

Inside of the buiding, there are four storey.It is generally divided into Ancient Chinese Bronze Gallery, Ancient Chinese Sculpture  Gallery and No.1 Exhibition Hall on the first floor; Ancient Chinese  Ceramics Gallery and  No.2 Exhibition on the second floor; Chinese Painting Gallery,Chinese  Calligraphy Gallery and Chinese Seal Gallery on the third floor; Chinese Minority Nationalities' Art Gallery, Ancient Chinese Jade Gallery, Chinese Ming and Qing Furniture Gallery,Chinese Currency Gallery,Display of Ancient Silk Road Coins and No.3 Exhibition Hall on the Fourth floor.Besides important exhibitions in the mainland,some successful exhibitions have been done in Hong Kong, America and Japan such as Bronze Exhibition, Six-Thousand-Year Art Display of China, Rare Chinese Porcelain Display, Calligraphy Exhibition of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Display of Yangzhou Eight-Masters, Display on Liberator’s Study in later Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Shanghai Museum is world-renowned for its fine and rare collections of a large number of artistic heritages.

 

Ox-shaped Zun(wine vessel)	Chinese Ceramics	Yatouwantie(鸭头丸帖)--Wang Xianzhi

Among all the collections, Shanghai Museum features on Bronze, Ceramics, paintings and calligraphy. The bronze in Shanghai Museum are famous and antique, which were collected by several great collectors of the late Qing Dynasty who lived in the south of Yangtze River;The Ceramics in Shanghai Museum are those great ones discovered or well preserved in the south of Yangtze River, for example, the crockery with elaborate engraving made in the pre-historical period is a rare and invaluable antique and precious celadon is also another unique feature which makes the museum vary from other museums in China; The collection of traditional paintings are considered to cover half of antique paintings in China;In calligraphy, there is Yatouwantie which was created by Wang Xianzhi, a great calligrapher in Eastern Jin Dynasty (317 - 420), and whose father Wang Xizi was one of the greatest masters in calligraphy.There are also extractive, systematic, and representative scrolling and paintings created by calligraphers and painters in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The old coin collection is the largest one in China. Its collection of seal tops the rest in China too.  

A Buddhist in red from the western Regions--Zhao Mengfu	Ancient Chinese money