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Invitation to Museum

“The gods are made of marble

Deep inside a museum

A quadruped monster beckons me to approach”

 

― Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen

 

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This is the façade of Shanghai Museum. As a museum of ancient Chinese art, Shanghai Museum possesses a collection of over 1,000,000 objects, about 120,000 of which are precious national-graded works of art. Its rich and high-quality collection of ancient Chinese bronze, ceramics, painting, calligraphy, jewelry, furniture and ethnic costumes is specially celebrated in the world.

www.shanghaimuseum.net/en/

 

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