Open hour
9:00-17:00 (stop entering into at 16:00)
Ticket
Free
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The Shanghai Museum of Art and History lies in people s square, the address is the main road No. 201 of the people of Huangpu district. Subway the firsth, the second, Line eight people s station on the square, the No. of public transit 454, No. 112, No. 123, No. 71, No. 934, No. 145, No. 46, tunnel Line six,etc.
Introduce
The earliest building location of Shanghai Museum of Art and History is the library of Shanghai on Nanjing Road, built the hall in 1935, seven years later, gathered together the bank mansion in the ones that moved to Henan South Road. The new hall lies in the south on the square of people of city center, cover an area of 2.2 hectares. Two layers of underground, five layers on the ground, the height of ground is 29 meters, gross investment is 4,300 million yuan. Go into operation on will it be September 1993, finish agent structure will it be September 1994 and outer wall stick to surface to be ornamental, open formally at the end of 1995. It is architecture that a square body base combined with round grow, the model has China hemispherical dome Implied meaning. It has bases in the traditional building of China, shape purpose of the step, have eastern style of afforestation, have reflected the modern science and technology and spirit of the times. Overlook the museum from the distant place, the round roof adds the upper arc of the arched door, the whole building is like an ancient bronze ware in China; If overlook the museum from the height, then level is like the enormous pattern of the rule mirror of Han Dynasty of one side on the roof. By evening, the glass daylighting ball of span of 13 meters of middle calotte, under the circumstances that the floodlight shines and uses, like a sparkling legendary luminous pearl. Four towering arts carve the arched door, record the process of characters and historical development in the museum; Both sides 8 lions and artistic stone carvings of the emolument on day in front of the door on the right, the ones that expressed Chinese culture are incomparably bright. The whole area of building of Shanghai Museum of Art and History is 3, 800 square meters, 2 storeys of underground, 5 storeys of ground, the building height is 29. 5 meters, gross investment is 430 million yuan. Assign to 6 districts inside the museum functionally. One is 12 special halls and 2 temporary exhibition halls such as bronze ware, pottery, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, jade ware, coin, ethnic minority, craft to the fourth Floor, increase by more than 2 times than the display area of old hall. The device design of the Shanghai Museum of Art and History accords with and resists shock, defends the thunder, firing prevention, guarding against theft, protection against insects, dampproof, defends dry, lightproof, dustproof, pollution -proof Ten is defended Requirement. The Shanghai Museum of Art and History hides 120,000 treasures together at present, there are 200,000 volumes of specialized book of Chinese and foreign language, there are historical relics in China The independent section of country It claims, enjoy high reputation in the world. In inside functionally, the new hall is well equipped, rationally distributed, the science of technological process, can meet the need which displays exhibition, scientific research, three major basic functions of historical relic s protection. The whole hall is divided into six areas such as open district, storehouse district, academic district, scientific research district, management area, apparatus district. Every area is distributed clearly, separate, it is rational to cross, does not interfere with each other. All exhibits in the Shanghai Museum of Art and History are divided into 12 special halls, namely the bronze ware hall, ceramic hall, painting hall, the calligraphy hall, sculpture hall, coin hall, jade ware, furniture hall, imperial seal print hall, ethnic minority craft hall, Mr. Hu HuiChun and donate the exhibition room of the porcelain, western odeum. Bronze ware hall: The traders, week bronze wares are the rarity in China s ancient civilization. The bronze ware handed down from ancient times scatters in the museums of countries such as U.S.A., Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan,etc., there is certain amounts of respectively. In the past 40 years, Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan,etc. have saved a large number of unearthed relics, but stress most with museum, Taibei the Palace Museum and Shanghai Museum of Art and History of Beijing s Imperial Palace as systematic collection. Bronze ware that Shanghai collect by natural science in weight and more for special in order to have long inscription and record. Have also substantiated the important historical relic of a part which manager Ma ChengYuan rescued in Hong Kong in the past three years in the new exhibit, the Jin Dynasty person who wait and the intersection of state of Qin and early period public weapon Qin of Western Zhou Dynasty. The bronze ware hall will also assign relevant ancient bronze wares to cast process and simulation to display. Ceramic hall: It is the epitome of a Chinese ceramic history, from ancient painted pottery of the primitive society to the trader, primitive porcelain in week, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three countries, celadon of the West Jin Dynasty, along the orbit of ceramic development, to the kiln device of officer of Jing De-zhen of Ming and Qing times, exhibit. There is ancient porcelain that makes the simulation of workshop and kiln to display at the same time. Painting hall: The Shanghai Museum of Art and History collects painting and relies mainly on the fact that the scholar drew in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Tang exhibit on grandson person high ease picture ,five generation the picture Xia Shan Dong, it is the Wan gully of wind roses looses , the willow crow reed wild goose picture ,etc. treasures the most favourite Song HuiZongs rights huge Northern Song Dynasty, and the original work of classic in the Southern Song Dynasty, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Calligraphy hall: Divide painting and calligraphy into two special halls, it is the older generation of expert s great pain that is collected and formed the rich result that collects gradually. Here exhibit have, take the place of inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells, inscription on ancient bronze objects, the intersection of stone and the intersection of drum and document and Qin and Han Dynasty for two week, wait each characters and the intersection of calligraphy and work of era to two the Jin Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Sculpture hall: Besides displaying some wood carving, sculpturing, take stone engraving statue as the core. Here s Northern Wei Dynasty, neat in the north, the north week and the Sui and Tang dynasties sculpture, and rare south stone engraving, orichalceous statue of Buddha,etc.. Coin hall: China has history of using the metal money in more than 3000 years, the Chinese ancient coins that the Shanghai Museum of Art and History collects are more complete. Not only collected the past dynasties copper iron to cast at this moment,but also the gold coin of the Warring States, exhibited gold, not had bank note edition and gold and silver in Ming and Qing Dynasties currency, have it along gold of Silk Road of various countries, silver currency,etc.. Jade ware hall: The light by designing specially will show the prehistoric and three generations past dynasties jade ware treasure afterwards. Furniture hall: Set up the hall, study and three exhibition rooms of bedroom of the bright type, exhibit the collection of Ming and Qing Dynasties, exhibit large quantities of bright type furniture that the people, gentleman of Hong Kong village donated at the same time. The Chinese ancient furniture has been always treasured by people, the exhibition here will cause audience s great interest outside China. The imperial seal prints the hall: The Chinese past dynasties imperial seal is printed studies political/economical, military officials and a copy of important material object materials of the literature, art in period of each dynasty. The focal point of the exhibit is the ounce Chinese chop of imperial seal of the Warring States and craft hall of ethnic minority of school cherry in Ming and Qing Dynasties in the hall: China is the unified multi-nationality country, Shanghai Museum of Art and History collect one dress and all kinds of handicraft new hall of ethnic minority set up to China special hall set up special hall recommend the workmanships of all ethnic minorities for many years Give to the masses of audiences. Mr. Hu HuiChun donates the exhibition room of the porcelain: The past dynasties porcelain that exhibition Mr. Hu HuiChun donated, among them such as glaze bluish white glaze device and a group of officer s color glazes device of the kiln in Qing Dynasty in Northern Song Dynasty, all very precious. Western odeum: The outstanding artistic tradition of any nationality and any country, all should be the panhuman wealth. The new hall still lacks the western artistic collection at present, it will hold various exhibitions through various channels, introduce the western outstanding work of art to the audience. The exhibit of the Shanghai Museum of Art and History, has reflected the brilliant course of ancient artistic development of 6,000 years of China more comprehensively. Collect products in the hall in display area of 12000 square meters, under the condition of the warm humidity of the automation control environment, change regularly,it make by all kinds of historical relics give play to in social benefit. Several special exhibition hall offer every hold city display the unearthed newest historical relic treasure. The Shanghai Museum of Art and History will become the artistic historical relic exhibition at home and abroad, exchange and the research center. The new hall adopts the latest scientific and technological means to manage in the world.
The Shanghai Museum of Art and History is one of four major museums of China that enjoys equal fame with Beijing, Nanjing, Xi an, open 12 thematic exhibition rooms, 120,000 precious historical relics in storage, including 21 classes such as bronze ware, the pottery, calligraphy, painting, jade tooth device, bamboo wooden lacquer ware, first bone, printing, ethnic minority craft of imperial seal, among them regard bronze ware, pottery, calligraphy, painting as the characteristic particularly. Mainly it had had famous product of thread that several one batch which collected everybody in the South had spread since late Qing to have the rich bronze ware, such as big famous gram of pots,etc.. The collection of the upper rich pottery has concentrated most masterpieces in the South, the culture of good small piece of land surrounded by water of prehistoric age is thin to carve the pottery, it is a rare product that saw. The collection of the primitive celadon, it is a characteristic in storage too. The ones that have rich past dynasties calligraphy and painting are collected, there is saying of independent section of country of the South. In the calligraphy, a thousand word files that duck s head pill is stuck , Tang Gao is unoccupied of Wang Xianzhi s,etc., it is all a monobasic masterpiece. In the painting, the intersection of grandson and the high the intersection of ease and picture of Tang, five generation rare treasure in the Xia Shan picture scroll of Yuan Dong,etc.. As for the collection of painter s works of Ming and Qing Dynasties, more contemporary the first.
