Shanghai Museum

Located at 201, Renmin Avenue, on the south of the People’s Square in the center of the city, Shanghai Museum matches in fame Beijing Museum, Nanjing Museum, and Xi’an Museum, generally known as the four major museums in China. It is a traditional style structure with vault ceiling and square base, with the implication of “round heaven and square earth”, a traditional concept of the ancient Chinese. The museum looks like a bronze ware from the distance. It has an exhibition area of 12,000 square meters in four floors, the first floor being the Ancient Chinese Bronze Gallery and the Ancient Chinese Sculpture Gallery, the second floor the Ancient Chinese Ceramics Gallery, the third floor the Chinese Calligraphy Gallery, Chinese Painting Gallery, and Chinese Seal Gallery, and the fourth floor the Ancient Chinese Jade Gallery, Chinese Coin Gallery, Chinese Ming and Qing Furniture Gallery, Chinese Minority Nationalities' Art Gallery. Currently, the museum has a collection of 120 thousand pieces of precious and rare works of art.