Shanghai Museum was founded in 1952, and its original site was the Old Horse Racing Club at No.325 Nanjing West Road. In October of 1959, it moved into Zhonghui Building at No.16 Henan South Road, and now it is located at No.211 Renmin Avenue, Huangpu District, south of People's Square in downtown Shanghai.

in August, 1993, the new Shanghai Museum started construction, and it was fully completed and opened on October 2, 1996. Shanghai Museum has a total building area of 39,211 square meters, covering an area of 1,111 square meters, with two floors underground and five floors above ground, with a height of 29.5 meters and a total investment of 571 million yuan.

The new building is a combination of a square base and a circular overhang, which has the meaning of "a round place" in China. The name "Shanghai Museum" was written by Chen Yi, the first mayor of Shanghai after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

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Introduction to the exhibition hall

1. Ancient Bronze Museum: The exhibition hall of China Ancient Bronze Museum covers an area of 1,211 square meters, in which more than 411 exquisite bronzes are displayed. Bronzes were an important symbol of ancient social civilization in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties in China.

2. Ancient Sculpture Museum: The exhibition hall of China Ancient Sculpture Museum covers an area of 641m2, including more than 121 exhibits. The exhibition hall is based on gold, red and black, with lotus petals commonly used in Buddhist art as partition walls, niches in cave temples as closets and exposed display forms.

3. Painting Gallery of Past Dynasties: The exhibition hall covers an area of 1,211 square meters, and * * * displays more than 121 fine paintings of past dynasties, which are reflected in various painting categories from the Tang Dynasty to modern times. Painting has a profound tradition and unique national style. It is a plastic art with brush, ink and silk paper as the main tools and point-and-line structure as the main means of expression.

4. National Arts and Crafts Museum: The exhibition hall covers an area of more than 711 square meters, and displays nearly 611 pieces of ethnic minority costumes, dyeing, weaving and embroidery, metal crafts, sculptures, pottery, lacquerware, rattan and bamboo weaving and mask art. It shows the strange style of minority handicrafts. ?

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