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Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Museum

  • 5 out of 5 stars by jj87 from New York, New York
  • January 19, 2025
Quote: Even though we had to wait in line outside, Shanghai Museum was well worth the visit! It was even better than I expected after reading about it on Urbanatomy - http://www.urbanatomy.com/index.php/city-guides-/shanghai-2009/1990-shanghai-museum-shanghai-bowuguan - especially since there's no entry fee. The Silk Road coins exhibition was really interesting, but my favourite was definitely the Jade collection. We were also lucky enough to see the Ancient Chinese Bronzes which was the special exhibition on when we went.

Shanghai Museum

  • 5 out of 5 stars by cheese_cake from London, United Kingdom
  • October 2, 2025
Quote: If you visit only one museum in China, make it this one. Although its collection cannot rival that of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, it is nonetheless very impressive—it has the largest collection of ancient Chinese bronze artifacts, for example. Exhibits are arranged by material, rather than dynasty, which is slightly unusual for a Chinese museum, but in fact aids understanding and appreciation. There are 4 to 5 floors of state-of-the-art galleries, and clear explanations/signs in Chinese and English. The attached gift shop is also very good, with a wide selection of books, in Chinese and English, on Chinese art, architecture, and history. The building itself, on People's Square, is designed to resemble an ancient Chinese bronze... Read More

From journal Sexy Shanghai

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Shanghai Museum

  • 5 out of 5 stars by kwasiak from Tucson, Arizona
  • January 23, 2025
Quote: The Shanghai Museum is built to resemble an ancient bronze ding, which is a three-legged food vessel used for cooking and serving. The exhibits include Ancient Chinese Bronze, Ancient Chinese Jade, Calligraphy, Chinese Painting, and Ming and Qing Furniture. The museum’s most famous gallery is the Ancient Chinese Bronze Gallery. The exhibit contains bronzes dating back to the 21st century BCE. Just a few of the types of bronze objects the museum displays are wine bottles, bowls, goblets, dings, stylized animal motifs of dragons, lions, and phoenixes, and bells. My favorite gallery was the Ancient Chinese Jade Gallery. There were examples of jade from the simplest early carvings to later, more complex carving. The small jade discs... Read More

From journal Shanghai: Paris of the East

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To Recall the Ancient China

  • 5 out of 5 stars by shammiyap from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • October 7, 2025
Quote: Established in 1952, the Shanghai Museum covers 38,000 square metres and is 29.5m in height with five floors on the ground and two floors underground. It houses 120,000 pieces of works of arts in collection. The building itself is a stunning $700-million masterpiece, which is specially designed to recall an ancient ding – a three-legged food/wine vessel used for cooking and serving. The entrance is guarded by a row of lions and mythological beasts. The main galleries are located at the first to fourth floors, which can be accessed by an escalator. The First Floor 1. Ancient Chinese Bronze Gallery 2. Ancient Chinese Sculpture Gallery The Second Floor 1. Ancient Chinese Ceramics Gallery 2. Zande Lou Ceramics Gallery The... Read More

From journal The Old and New Shanghai

Shanghai History Museum

  • 5 out of 5 stars by nyc_camy from kaohsiung
  • June 14, 2025
Quote: I was surprised by the extent of the museum. On the ground floor, it seemed like only a display of cars/transportations. I thought it may be a waste of money. However, there were about 4 different areas of this museum. The first one was the cars. The second was the scenes from the old China from different dynasties. One was of the opium war period when people just laid around smoking opium, another was where the apothecary still used abacus to calculate how much to charge. Then afterwards, it was a more modern display section of miniature buildings and how the foreigners came to reside in Shanghai and building all the different European style buildings (at the Bund). Then there was an area for the old Shanghai posters, the tiny shoes, and... Read More

From journal Shanghai

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Shanghai Museum

  • 4 out of 5 stars by Jenn966 from Hamilton Square, New Jersey
  • October 28, 2025
Quote: The Shanghai Museum has a bit of everything that is China. In galleries ranging over four floors, you will find a wide variety of items depicting life in China over the centuries.As is my habit, I decided to see the museum from the top down. The fourth floor housed, among other things, a display of some beautiful items of the ethnic people of China. The vast majority of Chinese people belong to the Han ethnicity, but a wide range of other cultures have been recognized by the Chinese government as having "special" cultural significance. The Shanghai Museum and the Museum of Ethnic People in Guilin celebrate the differences in dress, music and culture of the diverse ethnic groups. The costumes and jewelry on display are very different... Read More

From journal First Impressions of Shanghai

Shanghai Museum

  • 3 out of 5 stars by Nosefish from Urbana, Illinois
  • August 1, 2025
Quote: Both full and beautiful. There are vast exhibits on calligraphy, traditional Chinese art, jade, etc. You can spend hours wandering around looking at artifacts from a culture & civilization so much older than America's.

From journal Study in China

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Shanghai Museum

  • 4 out of 5 stars by LenR from Townsville, Australia
  • August 30, 2025
Quote: Telephone: (21) 6327 0276 Hours: 9am – 5pm Shanghai Museum is a large-scale art museum worthy of anyone’s time. Its 120,000-piece collection of cultural relics focuses particularly on bronze and porcelain works, books and paintings. The building is situated within People's Square, the political and cultural centre of the city. Other buildings here are the City Hall, the Grand Shanghai Theatre and the underground shopping centre. The museum building is shaped like a large bronze pot. It has 10 exhibition halls devoted to different subjects, one hall for donated relics and three for temporary exhibitions. We had two hours to ‘see’ the collection and failed miserably. A day would be justified for this building, particularly if you... Read More

From journal Seeing China's Future

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Shanghai Museum

  • 4 out of 5 stars by Kathryn from Perth, Western Australia, Australia
  • January 25, 2025
Quote: The new Shanghai Museum is located near Renmin Square (the Peoples Square) and holds an amazing collection of historical and artistic objects. The museum is relatively new, opening to the public at the end of 1995. It was probably the most modern building I saw in China, with floor space of 120,000 m and a collection of 123,00 pieces (and yes, I could wax lyrical just about the toilets!). The museum is on 4 levels and the galleries lead off from a central atrium. The displays are divided into different categories, including bronzeware, chinaware, sculpture, coins, furniture, seals, jade, arts and crafts from ethnic minorities, and calligraphy. We found it impossible to see everything in one day. Student could get a reduced entry... Read More

From journal Bumbling Through Shanghai

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