Shanghai Museum
Overview
China's great museum of ancient art in a round-squared People's Square building symbolizing heaven and earth. The finest bronze, ceramics, jade, and calligraphy collections anywhere: the Da Ke ding cauldrons, Song celadons, and seals of two millennia. Over a million objects strong.
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