Shanghai Museum
Shanghai Museum is one of China's four greatest museums, and the other three are Beijing Museum, Nanjing Museum and Xian Museum. The new Shanghai Museum was finally established in 1995. It is located in the south of People's Square in the center of Shanghai's downtown. Shanghai Museum is world-renowned for its fine and rare collection of a large number of artistic heritage at home and abroad. Among them, bronze-wares, chinawares and traditional paintings of different dynasties are more attractive and sparkling.
The bronze-wares 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 chinawares 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. The rare and precious celadon is also another unique feature which makes the museum vary from other museums in China.
The collection of traditional paintings in Shanghai Museum is considered to cover the 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 has the largest scale in China. Its collection of seal tops the rest in China too.
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