- The Shanghai Museum is situated on the People's Square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
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Tourist attraction :
- The Shanghai Museum was founded in 1952 and was first open to the public in the former Shanghai Racecourse club house, now at 325 West Nanjing Road.
- In 1959 the museum moved into the former Zhonghui Building at 16 South Henan Road, which previously housed insurance companies and bank offices.
- In 1992, the Shanghai municipal government allocated a piece of land on People's Square to the museum as its new site.
- The museum has a collection of over 120,000 pieces, including bronze, ceramics, calligraphy, furniture, jades, ancient coins, paintings, seals, sculptures, minority art and foreign art.
- The Shanghai Museum houses several items of national importance, including one of three extant specimens of a "transparent" bronze mirror from the Han Dynasty.
- The Museum has an important collection of ancient coins from the Silk Road, donated since 1991 by Linda and Roger Doo.
- The collection contains 1783 pieces from the Greeks to the Mongol Empire.