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The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art, situated on the People's Square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
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. Designed by a local architect, the new museum building has a unique shape of round top and a square base, symbolising the ancient Chinese perception of the world as "round sky, square earth". 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:
Category:Art museums and galleries in China zh:上海博物馆 Category:Shanghai This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Shanghai Museum".
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