Shanghai Museum

The collection and architecture are first-class.

Shanghai Museum, together with the museums in Beijing, Nanjing and Xi 'an, are called the four major museums in China. 1995 The museum moved here has a unique shape, giving full play to the traditional architectural concept of "a place with a round sky" in China, and its overall appearance is like a solemn and quaint ancient bronze ware. The Shanghai Museum claims to have collected half of China's ancient works of art. There is nothing dazzling in the exhibition hall, but you can always be dazzled by the history of China.

Exhibition hall 12, collection of cultural relics 12. The crafts of ethnic minorities are relatively comprehensive, reflecting the glorious course of China ancient art for 6,000 years. You can rent a walkman with commentary in both Chinese and English, which is very detailed and wonderful.

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Scenic Spot Level: National AAAA Scenic Spot.

Address: No.201Renmin Avenue, Huangpu District, Shanghai

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Shanghai Museum (new museum) is located in the south of People's Square in the center of Shanghai. Established in 1952, Shanghai Museum was formed by merging several original museums with the support of then mayor Chen Yi. The first museum is located at Henan South Road 16 (in the former Zhonghui Bank Building). At the end of 1995, the new museum was officially completed. Shanghai Museum is one of the four major museums in China, which enjoys equal fame with Beijing, Ning and An.

Shanghai Museum is a large-scale China ancient art museum located in Shanghai, China, with a collection of 6.5438+0.2 million precious cultural relics, especially bronzes, ceramics, calligraphy and painting.

The history of building a museum

Shanghai Museum was established in 1950 and officially opened in 1952 and 12. At that time, the exhibition hall was located in the Happy Valley Hall in Shanghai, and then moved to the former Zhonghui Bank Building in Henan Road. 1993 With the efforts of the then curators Ma Chengyuan and Wang, the new museum was started in the People's Square in the center of Shanghai. The new museum officially opened. A curator of the British Museum once called it "the last swan song of this century".

build

The overall building of the Shanghai Museum is in the shape of the top circle and the bottom circle, which means the traditional saying in China that "the sky is round and the place is round". Seen from a distance, the whole building looks like ancient bronze wares in China. The building area of the museum is about 40,000 square meters. A basement, four and a half floors above ground. The total height of the building is 29.5 meters. The layout of Shanghai Museum is divided into six areas: open area, storage area, academic area, scientific research area, management area and equipment area. There are now 12 special exhibition rooms. The exhibition focuses on precious cultural relics.

cultural relic collection

The museum has collected 1 12000 pieces of historical and artistic relics, including bronzes, calligraphy, paintings, ceramics, jade, stone carvings, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, seals, coins, silk embroidery, tooth bone carvings, handicrafts of ethnic minorities and archaeological excavations in Shanghai, from Paleolithic to modern and modern times. Bronze ware, ceramics, calligraphy and painting are the most distinctive collections. Among the bronze ritual vessels, the important collections are Fang Deding in the West Zhou Chengwang era, Yu Ding in the Kang Wang era, Da Dingke and Xiao Dingke in the Wang Xiao era, Shi Gui Hu and Shi Duigui in the Wang Yi era, and Song Ding in the Xuanwang era. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the main objects of the bronze ware group in Liyu Village of Hunyuan were sacrificial offerings, dragons pots of birds and animals, Qi Hou pots, Zhu Gong Hua Zhong, Tian Qi San Liang, Shang Yang Fang Sheng and so on. There are Shang Primitive Celadon Zun, Tangxing Kiln Baby Box, Kiln Begonia Bowl, Kiln Plate, Southern Song Guan Two Bottles, Yuan Jingdezhen Kiln Blue and White Lotus Pot, Ming Yongle Jingdezhen Kiln Red Glaze Plate, Ming Chenghua Jingdezhen Kiln Blue and White Peacock Blue Glaze Plate, etc.

The collection of bronzes is mainly handed down by several famous artists in the south of the Yangtze River. Among them, there are many national treasures, such as Da Keding, Sacrifice, Shang Yang Fang Sheng, Zi Zhong Pan Jiang and Jin Hou chimes. There is also a rich collection of calligraphy and painting. In addition to the famous works of Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, there are also various famous painters and painters in Ming and Qing Dynasties. In recent years, it has been included in Ji Kang's Theory of Health Preservation, Chunhuage's Zuben and Qian's Ming Xin's Original Collection. Ceramic ware concentrates most of the treasures in the south of the Yangtze River. Ming and Qing furniture concentrated the essence of Wang and Chen.

Among more than 65,438+10,000,000 paintings and calligraphy, the early ones include the duck head pill in Jin Dynasty, the bitter stick of Tang Huaisu, the thousand-character calligraphy of Tang Gaoxian, the Gaoyi painting of Tang Dynasty, and the Xiashan painting of Dongyuan in the Five Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, there were Zhao Wa Liu Yan's scrolls and thousand-character scrolls, Su Shi's and Xie's scrolls, Huang Tingjian's Hua Yan Shu Juan, Mi Fei's poems of Duojinglou, Guo's Painting the Valley Axis, Ma's Viewing the Plum Axis and Li Di's Flowers and Birds Axis. In the Yuan Dynasty, there were Wangbian seclusion axis, Zhenwu Fisherman axis, Zhao Mengfu Dongting Dongshan axis, Ni Zan fishing village Qiuji axis, Liushi axis and so on. As for the works of painters and calligraphers in Ming and Qing Dynasties, there are dozens of exquisite and systematic scrolls representing painters, which is an important feature of Jiangnan painting and calligraphy collection. The collection of coins is the largest. The collection of seal cutting seals in Ming and Qing schools ranks first in the national museums. In archaeological excavations, a large number of jade ritual vessels of Liangzhu culture are the most distinctive.

On display in the museum

The exhibition area of the museum is 2800 square meters. There are Chinese bronzes showroom, China ceramics showroom, China painting showroom and ancient sculpture showroom. The museum's bronzes exhibition in Shanghai Museum, six thousand years' art exhibition in China, porcelain exhibition in Shanghai Museum, calligraphy exhibition in Ming and Qing Dynasties, exhibition of Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou, and research exhibition of late Ming scholars have all been exhibited in Hong Kong, Japan and the United States.

The museum has made many achievements in scientific research, such as the thermoluminescence dating of pottery, the application of methyl bromide in cultural relics protection, the application of soft X-rays in cultural relics protection and archaeology, and the study of the water spraying principle of "fish swimming and washing" in Ming Dynasty by laser holography. The museum pioneered thermoluminescence dating technology of domestic museums, laser holographic technology of cultural relics protection and vacuum freeze-drying technology of ancient wood products.

There are dozens of special picture books in the museum, including Paintings Collected by Shanghai Museum, Bronzes Collected by Shanghai Museum, Ceramics Collected by Shanghai Museum, Seals Collected by Shanghai Museum, Books Collected by Shanghai Museum in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and Ming Chenghua Rap Book. The annual magazine is collected by Shanghai Museum.

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The Shanghai Museum claims to have collected half of China's ancient works of art. There is nothing dazzling in the exhibition hall, but you can always be dazzled by the history of China.