3 Considered one of China's first world-class modern museums, the Shanghai Museum covers 39,200 m² (9.7 acres) over 5 floors and houses a collection of over 120,000 pieces, including bronze, ceramics, calligraphy, furniture, jades, ancient coins, paintings, seals, sculptures, minority art and foreign art.
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24 As much accolades that the museum seems to gather, I was somewhat nonplussed by the experience as I was wanting to know the history or provenance of quite a few of the displays.
