Whether you’re looking for cutting edge contemporary works or something more classical, from institutions to indies, here’s a shortlist of city’s greatest art galleries and museums. The iconic destinations shaping Shanghai’s art scene.

Oct 18, 2024 · The museum's permanent exhibitions showcase the evolution of modern Chinese art, renowned artists' works, Shanghai's history and culture. Special exhibitions include the multimedia version of Qingming Shanghe Tu, or Along the River During the Qingming Festival.

Shanghai Museum is a large museum of ancient Chinese artifacts. It has more than 120,000 precious historical relics, including bronze ware, china ware, calligraphy works, paintings, jade articles, ancient coins, ancient furniture, and sculptures.

There are 20 galleries and interactive spaces in the building. The permanent displays in the Bronze Gallery, the Calligraphy Gallery, the Painting Gallery, the Seal Gallery, the Ceramics Gallery, the Numismatics Gallery, and the Jade Gallery systematically unravel the history of ancient Chinese art.

Jul 1, 2024 · Rapidly evolving in the past decades, the contemporary scene in Shanghai boasts a great range of art venues today, including some prestigious museums and a solid group of art galleries,...

Feb 8, 2024 · About 1,200 pieces of delicate artworks, including Chinese paintings, oil paintings, prints, sculptures, and calligraphy are on display. This themed exhibition is the first one focusing on the history of art of Shanghai and China.

The museum is housed in the former China Pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo 2010, which was transformed into an art museum after the Expo. It has an impressive collection of over 14,000 artworks, including traditional Chinese paintings, calligraphy, sculptures, ceramics, and contemporary art.

It also explores the artistic features of Shanghai calligraphy and painting of the past one thousand years, in terms of profundity, purity, inclusiveness, and creativity, to help understand the urban vibe and humanistic fabric of the cosmopolis.

China Art Museum, Shanghai (Shanghai Art Museum) is a municipal art museum of Shanghai City. It is a public welfare institution funded by the Shanghai City Culture and Tourism Bureau. [3][4][5][6] The museum is housed in the China Pavilion building, formerly of the Expo 2010 Shanghai China.

The SPSI Art Museum, established in 1965, is China's first public research institution dedicated to art mediums of oil painting and sculpture. Located in Shanghai's Changning district, it is an important venue within the Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute.