Great World Amusement Center

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The Shanghai Museum’s design is based on ancient Chinese bronze vessels.(shanghdi bowigudn) Inside, China’s greatest display of artna’s greatest display of art and artifacts awaits the visitor. Though museums in Beijing and Xi’ an have larger collections, nowhere are they better exhibited.

Its 14 galleries house collections of bronzes, sculptures, ceramics, paintings calligraphy, seals, jades, coins, furniture and ethnic minority art. Whereas most major Chinese museums are arranged chronologically by dynasties, the exhibits in the Shanghai nged by theme, allowing the visitor to observe the progression of aesthetics Signs introducing the objects are in English as well as Chinese and the track lighting focused and bright. For anyone visiting Shanghai, or China for that matter, the museum is a must see. Chi history and culture buffs will likely find one day too short to take and in the extensged.ection, and with over 120,000 artifacts to choose from, the displays are often changed, making the museum worth a return visit Now housed in the old Race Club Building, the Shanghai Art Gallery (shanghai meishu guan) has steadily improved its collection to provide visitors with greater access to Chinese and foreign masterpieces In 2002, the museum hosted a blown glass exhibition featuring colored glass blown into traditional and modern shapes. Much of the collection has und its way into high-priced boutiques on Nanjing and Huaihai Road.

With a focus Chinese art, the museum still strives to feature works of ethnic artists and Rena Another highlight found in People” Square is People’s’ Parkrenmin gongyuan from the crowds. Tree-lined lanes wind through pools and over gentle rises top mall pavilions. It’s one of the few places in Shanghai where visitors can sit on the grass and this park is rarely crowded despite its central location.

Vendors sell drinks and snacks outside the entrance Located near the we of People’s Park is Shanghai’s premier venue for truly big name entertainment, the Shanghai Grand Theatre(shanghai dajuyuan).

The highlights of its early days may have been limited to Chinese symphonies and visiting orchestras and ballet troops from Russia, but the theater’s billing has grown rapidly in recent years. A one-month engagement in 2002 of Les Miserables featured the original Broadway cast, and in early 2003 it hosted the Broadway cast of Cats. Featuring the largest stage in the world, Shanghai Grand Theatre is comprised of three different theatres, the largest seating 1, 800. Its space-age design somehow resembles a giant Chinese pagoda.

To the east is Shanghai’s city hall, the Municipal Government Building. This structure resembles most other government buildings in China imposing and boxy. To its east is the more interesting and accessible Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall (shanghai chengshiguihud zhanshiguan). This hall is open to visitors and has numerous scale models detailing the history and future of Shanghai’s’ development.it’sa good place to get some perspective on the changes sweeping through the city. One highlight worth viewing is the latest scale model of the planned development in preparation for Shanghai’s 2010 World Expo. Shanghai is a city that’s growing in leaps and bounds and in a blink of an eye, much of the city has already changed.