Shanghai Museum is famous at home and abroad for its large collection of exquisite artistic relics. Among them, it is characterized by bronzes, ceramics and paintings of past dynasties. The bronzes in Shang Bo are mainly a batch of famous products collected by several collectors in the south of the Yangtze River since the late Qing Dynasty, such as the famous Dakeding. The preservation and calling of collections are also important tools in the fields of history and metallography. Shang Bo's collection of ceramics concentrates most of the fine products in the south of the Yangtze River, and the pottery elaborately crafted by prehistoric Liangzhu culture is even more rare. Collecting primitive celadon is also a major feature of the collection. The products of representative kilns in Tang and Song Dynasties also have a collection system. As for Jingdezhen's collection of colored porcelain, it is unique. Shang Bo's ancient calligraphy and painting collections are known as half of the country in the south of the Yangtze River. In calligraphy, Wang Xianzhi's Duck Head Pill Sticker, Tang Gaoxian's thousand-character Wen Juan and Huai Su's Bitter Bamboo Shoot Sticker are all masterpieces of one generation. In painting, Gao in the Tang Dynasty, Xia Juan by Dong Yuan in the Five Dynasties, and Eight Monks Picture Juan by Liang Kai in the Song Dynasty are all rare treasures. As for the collection of Ming and Qing painters' works, it is even more contemporary. The collection of other cultural relics has also become a spectacular landscape. Such as coins, ancient jade, seals, sculptures, etc. , have a certain scale, and many famous products, self-contained. The collection of furniture is the best of Wang and Chen, which is unparalleled in the world.

Shanghai Museum (new museum) is located in the south of People's Square in the center of Shanghai. Established in 1952, Shanghai Museum was formed by merging several original museums with the support of then mayor Chen Yi. The first museum is located at Henan South Road 16 (in the former Zhonghui Bank Building). At the end of 1995, the new museum was officially completed. Shanghai Museum is one of the four major museums in China, which enjoys equal fame with Beijing, Ning and An.

The museum has collected 1 12000 pieces of historical and artistic relics, including bronzes, calligraphy, paintings, ceramics, jade, stone carvings, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, seals, coins, silk embroidery, tooth bone carvings, handicrafts of ethnic minorities and archaeological excavations in Shanghai, from Paleolithic to modern and modern times. Bronze ware, ceramics, calligraphy and painting are the most distinctive collections. Among the bronze ritual vessels, the important collections are Fang Deding in the West Zhou Chengwang era, Yu Ding in the Kang Wang era, Da Dingke and Xiao Dingke in the Wang Xiao era, Shi Gui Hu and Shi Duigui in the Wang Yi era, and Song Ding in the Xuanwang era. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the main objects of the bronze ware group in Liyu Village of Hunyuan were sacrificial offerings, dragons pots of birds and animals, Qi Hou pots, Zhu Gong Hua Zhong, Tian Qi San Liang, Shang Yang Fang Sheng and so on. There are Shang Primitive Celadon Zun, Tangxing Kiln Baby Box, Kiln Begonia Bowl, Kiln Plate, Southern Song Guan Two Bottles, Yuan Jingdezhen Kiln Blue and White Lotus Pot, Ming Yongle Jingdezhen Kiln Red Glaze Plate, Ming Chenghua Jingdezhen Kiln Blue and White Peacock Blue Glaze Plate, etc.

Among more than 65,438+/kloc-0,000,000 pieces of calligraphy and painting, the early ones include the duck head pill in Jin Dynasty, the bitter stick of Tang Huaisu, the thousand-character writing of Tang Gaoxian, the Gaoyi painting of Tang Dynasty and the Xiashan painting of Dongyuan in the Five Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, there were Zhao Wa Liu Yan's scrolls and thousand-character scrolls, Su Shi's and Xie's scrolls, Huang Tingjian's Hua Yan Shu Juan, Mi Fei's poems of Duojinglou, Guo's Painting the Valley Axis, Ma's Viewing the Plum Axis and Li Di's Flowers and Birds Axis. In the Yuan Dynasty, there were Wangbian seclusion axis, Zhenwu Fisherman axis, Zhao Mengfu Dongting Dongshan axis, Ni Zan fishing village Qiuji axis, Liushi axis and so on. As for the works of painters and calligraphers in Ming and Qing Dynasties, there are dozens of exquisite and systematic scrolls representing painters, which is an important feature of Jiangnan painting and calligraphy collection. The collection of coins is the largest. The collection of seal cutting seals in Ming and Qing schools ranks first in the national museums. In archaeological excavations, a large number of jade ritual vessels of Liangzhu culture are the most distinctive.