Shanghai Museum

The Shanghai Museum (Chinese:上海博物館) is a museum of ancient Chinese art, situated on the People's Square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Exterior view of Shanghai Museum. ... Exterior view of Shanghai Museum. ... The National Gallery in London, a famous museum. ... Chinese art is art that, whether modern or ancient, originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists or performers. ... Traffic around Peoples Square. ... Huangpu (黄浦), or sometimes also called New Huangpu, is one of Shanghais 18 districts. ... For other uses, see Shanghai (disambiguation). ...

History

• 1952: Museum founded and first open to the public in the building previously of the horseracing club at 325 W. Nanjing Road.
• 1959: Museum moved into the former Zhonghui Building at 16 S. Henan Road.
• 1992: Museum allocated a piece of land on People's Square by the Shanghai municipal government, as its new site.

1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nanjing Road one of the worlds busiest shopping streets. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

Current building

Westerner on a camel, Tang dynasty, Shanghai Museum.

Construction of the current building started in August 1993. It was inaugurated in October 12, 1996. It is 29.5 meters high with five floors, covering a total area of 39,200 sqm. Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 225 KB)Westerner on a camel. ... Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 225 KB)Westerner on a camel. ... For the band, see Tang Dynasty (band). ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Designed by a local architect, the new museum building is designed in the shape of an ancient, bronze, tripod cooking vessel called a ding. It is said that the inspiration for the design was specifically provided by the Da Ke Ding, now on exhibit in the museum. The building has round top and a square base, symbolising the ancient Chinese perception of the world as "round sky, square earth". A ding or ting (Chinese: 鼎; Hanyu Pinyin: ) is an ancient Chinese vessel with three legs; hence, it is also called a tripod. ...

Collections

The museum has a collection of over 120,000 pieces, including bronze, ceramics, calligraphy, furniture, jades, numismatics, paintings, seals, sculptures, minority art and foreign art. It has eleven galleries and three special temporary exhibition halls. Its main galleries are: Fixed Partial Denture, or Bridge The word ceramic is derived from the Greek word κεραμικος (keramikos, having to do with pottery). The term covers inorganic non-metallic materials whose formation is due to the action of heat. ... Calligraphy in a Latin Bible of AD 1407] on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... A selection of antique, hand-crafted Chinese jadeite jade buttons Jade An ornamental stone, jade is a name applied to two different silicate minerals. ... Seal on envelope A seal is an impression printed on, embossed upon, or affixed to a document (or any other object) in order to authenticate it, in lieu of or in addition to a signature. ...

• Gallery of Ancient Chinese Bronze
• Gallery of Ancient Chinese Sculpture
• Gallery of Ancient Chinese Ceramics
• Gallery of Ancient Chinese Jades
• Gallery of Ancient Chinese Paintings
• Gallery of Ancient Chinese Calligraphy
• Gallery of Ancient Chinese Seals
• Gallery of Ancient Chinese Numismatics
• Gallery of Chinese Furniture in Ming and Qing dynasties
• Gallery of Arts and Crafts by Chinese Minorities

Jar with modeled figurines, Kingdom of Wu, 222-280 CE. Chinese painting is a form of Chinese art. ... Calligraphy is an art dating back to the earliest day of history, and widely practiced throughout China to this day. ... The Míng Dynasty (Chinese: 明朝; Hanyu Pinyin: ) was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644. ... The Qing Dynasty (Manchu: daiching gurun(warrior country in Mongolian language); Chinese: 清朝; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: ching chao), sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty, was a dynasty founded by the Manchu - a nomadic nation of over two million people. ... The Peoples Republic of China officially describes itself as a multinational unitary state and as such officially recognizes 56 nationalities or M (民族), within China: the Han being the majority (>92%), and the remaining 55 nationalities being the national minorities. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (967x1387, 166 KB)Kingdom of Wu jar, Shanghai Museum, personal photograph 2005, released in the Public Domain. ... The Kingdom of Wu (Chinese: 吳, pinyin: wú) refers to a historical nation and several states in a region of China. ...	Jar of the Western Jin Dynasty, with Buddhist figures, 265-317 CE. Download high resolution version (882x1556, 187 KB)Jar of the Western Jin. ... The Jin Dynasty (晉 pinyin: jìn, 265-420), one of the Six Dynasties, followed the Three Kingdoms and preceded the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by...	Westerner on a camel (detail). Tang Dynasty. ImageMetadata File history File links WesternerCamelDetail. ... For the band, see Tang Dynasty (band). ...	Tang Dynasty jar. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (585x949, 167 KB)Tang dynasty jar. ...
A classic tri-color glazed Tang Dynasty horse, using yellow, green and white colors, from the Shanghai Art Museum. Tang horse at the Shanghai Museum by Andrew Lih File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Glaze is a thin shiny coating, or the act of applying the coating. ...	Tang Dynasty woman, Shanghai Art Museum. Tang dynasty woman, Shanghai Museum, by Andrew Lih File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

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