Shanghai Museum
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Key facts
- Location
- 201 Renmin Avenue, People's Square , Shanghai , 200003
- Coordinates
- 31°13′49″N 121°28′14″E / 31.230278°N 121.470556°E / 31.230278; 121.470556
- Visitors
- 2,109,200 (2017)
- Director
- Ma Chengyuan (1985–1999)
- Public transit access
- People's Square Station on Lines 1 , 2 , and 8 ( Shanghai Metro )
- Website
- shanghaimuseum.net
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Archive
- Founded
- 1952
- Location
- Shanghai, China
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.500918.5 · ISNI 0000 0001 2164 898X
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- museum
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Huangpu District
- Official website
- www.shanghaimuseum.net/en
- Image
- Shanghai Museum exterior 1.jpg
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- Commons Institution page
- Shanghai Museum
- topic's main category
- Category:Shanghai Museum
- inception
- 1952-01-01
- director / manager
- Ma Chengyuan
- Commons category
- Shanghai Museum
- date of official opening
- 1952-00-00
- visitors per year
- 880457
- street address
- 201 Renmin Avenue
- social media followers
- 2194
- native label
- 上海博物馆
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Encyclopedic overview
The Shanghai Museum is a public municipal museum of ancient Chinese art, situated on the People's Square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, China. It is funded by the Shanghai Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau.
Rebuilt at its current location in 1996, it is famous for its large collection of rare cultural pieces.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shanghai Museum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.