Shanghai Museum has a collection of over 120000 exquisite artifacts, showcasing historical relics from various dynasties and eras, with ancient bronze ceramics, calligraphy, and painting being the most distinctive. Among them, the Western Zhou Dynasty's Da Ke Ding, the Spring and Autumn Zi Zhong Jiang Pan, as well as the Tang Dynasty's "Gao Yi Tu" and the Eastern Jin Dynasty's Wang Xianzhi's "Duck Head Pill Tie" are well-known national treasure level collections both domestically and internationally.
In addition, there are also sculpture museums that collect ancient Buddhist sculpture art, minority craft museums that showcase traditional handicrafts of ethnic minorities, jade museums that showcase high-quality jade artifacts from various dynasties in China, and Ming and Qing furniture museums that reflect the living style of Ming and Qing furniture. The collection size of the Seal and Coin Museum of the Past Dynasties ranks among the top in the national museum. The Shanghai Museum also regularly holds special exhibitions (sometimes selling tickets to visit as appropriate), showcasing various domestic and foreign cultural relics, art works, calligraphy and painting, and other themed exhibitions.
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Address: 201 Renmin Avenue, Huangpu District
Tel: 021-63723500
https://www.shanghaimuseum.net/
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 (closed every Monday).
Admission: Free