上海博物馆展品

 1950年4月，上海博物馆开始筹建。

1952年12月21日，上海博物馆正式开馆，馆址在南京西路325号，隶属上海市文物管理委员会。 

1953年7月，上海博物馆划归上海市文化局领导。

1959年，迁至河南南路16号（原中汇银行大厦）。

1960年9月，上海市文管会与上海博物馆合署办公，两块牌子，一套班子。

1987年1月，上海博物馆升格为副局级单位。

1988年10月，上海市文物管理委员会恢复独立建制，上海博物馆仍旧划归市文管会领导。

1991年，在龙吴路1118号建造4000平方米文物仓库。

1992年，在虹桥路1286号建立上海博物馆分馆——中国钱币馆。同年，中共上海市委和上海市人民政府决定上海博物馆建造新馆，选址在人民广场中轴线南侧人民大道201号。

1993年8月，上海博物馆新馆开工建设。

1995年，新馆局部建成，试行开放。

1996年10月12日，新馆全面竣工，举行开馆仪式。 

2016年，翁万戈把南宋画家梁楷《道君像》捐售给了上海博物馆。

2018年10月，被评为全国中小学生研学实践教育基地。

 上海博物馆陈列面积共计12000平方米，一楼为中国古代青铜馆、中国古代雕塑馆和展览大厅；二楼为中国古代陶瓷馆、暂得楼陶瓷馆和展览厅；三楼为中国历代书法馆、中国历代绘画馆、中国历代查印馆；四楼为中国古代玉器馆、中国历代钱币馆、中国明清家具馆、中国少数民族工艺馆和展览厅。

古代青铜馆：中国古代青铜馆展厅面积1200平方米，其中陈列了400余件精美的青铜器，中国商周时代，青铜器是古代社会文明的重要标志。上海博物馆收藏的青铜器又以具有长篇铭文和著录的重较多为特色，新的陈列品中还有西周的晋候器和秦国早期秦公器等重要文物。 

古代雕塑馆：中国古代雕塑馆展厅面积640平方米展厅，其中有120余件展品。展厅以金、红、黑三色为基本色调，以佛教艺术中常用的莲瓣形做隔墙，石窟寺中的佛龛做壁橱，以及露置的陈列形式。除陈列部分木雕、陶塑外，以石刻塑像为主，这里有北魏、北齐、北周和隋唐雕塑，以及南石刻、金铜佛像等。 

古代陶瓷馆：中国古代陶瓷馆展厅面积1300平方米，共陈列了展品500余件。其中有新石器时代的彩陶和灰陶、商周及春秋战国时代的原始青瓷、东汉时代的的青瓷，还有唐朝的唐三彩。宋、金、辽时代，各地窑场林立。元、明、清三代，景德镇成为中国瓷业的中心，所烧制的釉下彩、釉上彩和颜色釉瓷器皆有展出。

历代书法馆：中国历代书法馆集中了中各个时期的典型名作，系统地展示了中国书法艺术的历史轨迹。展厅采用了展框、自动感应的灯光照明。

历代玺印馆：中国历代玺印馆是中国第一个专题陈列玺印篆刻的艺术馆。展厅面积380平方米，展出玺印篆刻500余件。整个陈列以印章艺术的发展历史为线索，上自西周，下迄清末，是从馆藏一万余枚印章文物中遴选出来的具有代表性、艺术性的精品。展馆内借助高低错落

的展柜，应用多种技术手段，使实物与辅助陈列相互配合。

历代绘画馆：展厅面积1200平方米，共陈列历代绘画精品120余件，从唐代至近代，各种绘画门类均有所体现。绘画有着深厚的传统和独特的民族风格。它是以毛笔、墨、绢纸为主要工具、以点线结构为主要表现手段的造型艺术。为有效地保护展品和方便观众欣赏，展室内还采用了自动调节光照的感应射灯。 

民族工艺馆：展厅面积700多平方米，集中陈列了少数民族的服饰工艺、染织绣、金属工艺、雕刻品、陶器、漆器、藤竹编和面具艺术等近600件。表现了少数民族工艺品的奇异风格。

历代钱币馆：展厅面积730平方米，通过近7000件文物，集中展现了中国货币发生、发展和中外经济文化交流的历史概貌。钱币馆内还辟有杜维善、谭端言伉俪捐赠的丝绸之路中亚古币专室。

明清家居馆：家具馆700平方米展厅内陈列了明清时代中国家具精华100多件。

古代玉器馆：中国素有“玉石之国”的美誉，制作玉器已有七千多年的历史。古代社会，玉不仅被用于装饰，而且是财富、权力的标志，又是统治者祭天祀地、沟通神灵的法物。

 出版读物

1976年以来，上海博物馆先后与南斯拉夫青春出版社，日本讲谈社、香港三联书店、日本NHK放送协会出版社、日本平凡社、香港大业公司等出版机构联合出版了《上海博物馆》、《青花釉里红》、《上海博物馆藏宝录》等12种大型图录和专著。

1985年以来出版了出国展览图录28种，既有综合性论述，又有每件展品的具体介绍，有的有几种文本。另出版了《上海博物馆藏画》、《上海博物馆藏青铜器》、《上海博物馆藏瓷选》、《上海博物馆藏法书》、《上海博物馆藏明清扇面》等图录和专著92种。

1987年，上海博物馆为庆祝建馆35周年，集中出版了《上海博物馆藏青铜镜》、《青花釉里红瓷器》、《恽南田书画图集》、《中国书画家印鉴和款识》、《崧泽--新石器时遗址发掘报告专集》等10种。

1990年出版了《清初四高僧精品集》大型图录。

1994年出版的《上海博物馆藏钱币》8册图录。

学术期刊

1985~1988年，编印了《国外自然科学与文物考古技术》情报资料14期。

1989年创办了《文物保护与考古科学》期刊，它既是实验室的研究通报，又是全国性的、唯一的文物保护技术的专业学术刊物。

文物修复

1958年上海博物馆设立文物修复工场，主要是修复、复制馆珍藏品，同时也为其它博物馆和国外博物馆修复文物、装裱书画。截至1995年，修复了馆藏青铜器、陶瓷器1400余件，如原来残缺的商父丁卣，破碎成70多片的西周曲折雷纹卣，从废铜中抢救出来的一对残损严重的春秋早期龙耳尊，经过修复，恢复了原貌。

工场还装裱了馆藏书画1800余件，其中不少是流传有绪的重要文物，如王羲之《上虞帖》、唐孙位《高逸图卷》等，经过精心装裱，得以妥善保护。尤其是出土时已成"书饼"的《明成化说唱本》，经过文物保护科技人员与书画装裱匠的通力合作，使说唱本得以完善地保存。

 社会教育

上海博物馆为国际旅行社举办20余次文物知识辅导，为400多所学校宣讲600余次文物课。与上海师大附中、上海实验学校联合开办“人文景观课”，把上海博物馆作为一个重要的人文景观点，分批组织各班级到陈列室讲课。

暑假期间，举办“考古夏令营”、“文物夏令营”活动，让学生实地领略中华古老文明的风采，组织“江浙沪中学生文物博物馆考察团”活动，从江、浙、沪地区“博物馆和我”征文比赛中选拔出32名优胜者的学生参加。

举办“文物知识竞赛”、开展“我心目中的博物馆”征文比赛，增强中学生的文物意识，使学生受到了深刻的爱国主义和革命传统教育。 

上海博物馆还组织了“博物馆之友”、“文物之友”等群众团体，把海内外文物收藏家、文物爱好者团结在博物馆周围，为文物博物馆事业的发展作出了贡献，尤其是为上博新馆建设捐赠了900多万美元作为18个专馆、专室的装修资金。

对外交流

上海博物馆的对外文化交流，始于五六十年代，基本是接待参观陈列，七十年代开始组织专业交流，举办学术讲座和国外来沪展览。

1980年开始组织了“上海博物馆珍藏中国青铜器展览”、“中国青花瓷器展”、“中国书法名品展”、“董其昌世纪展”、“上海博物馆珍藏工艺品展”、“上海博物馆藏良渚文化珍品展”等34个，分赴美、日、意、法、联邦德国、西班牙、荷兰、澳大利亚、墨西哥、瑞典和港、澳、台等13个国家和地区展出。“六千年的中国艺术展”在美国旧金山、芝加哥、休斯敦、华盛顿四城市展出时，观众达82万人次，并获得美国姊妹国际协会和读者文摘基金会颁发的“艺术特别成果奖”。 

协助举办国外来展和联展：1978年以来，上海博物馆展出了“突尼斯迦太基出土文物展”、“美国印第安人文物和西部名画家作品展览”、“中日货币展览”、“日本版画展览”等15个展览。

2012年上海博物馆建馆60周年，举办了《幽蓝神采——元青花大展》，《翰墨荟萃——美国藏中国五代宋元书画展》等大展。 

2013年，上海博物馆与法国凯布朗利博物馆联合举办了“刚果河——非洲中部雕刻艺术展”，与美国克拉克艺术馆联合举办了“从巴比松到印象派：克拉克艺术馆藏法国绘画精品展”，与土耳其文化部门联合举办了“安纳托利亚文明：从新石器时代到奥斯曼帝国”展览。

 The Shanghai Museum was founded in 1952. It was originally located at the Old Jockey Club at 325 Nanjing West Road. In October 1959, it moved to Zhonghui Building, No. 16 Henan South Road. It is now located at 201 Renmin Avenue, Huangpu District, south of the People's Square in Shanghai.

In August 1993, the new museum of Shanghai Museum started construction and was fully opened on October 12, 1996. The Shanghai Museum covers an area of 39,200 square meters, covering 11,000 square meters. It has two floors underground and five floors above ground. It is 29.5 meters high and has a total investment of 570 million yuan. The new pavilion is a combination of square base and circular pick-up, which has the meaning of "Tianyuan Place" in China. The name "Shanghai Museum" is written by Chen Yi, the first mayor of Shanghai since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The Shanghai Museum has eleven special museums and three exhibition halls with an exhibition area of 2,800 square meters. There are nearly one million cultural relics in the collection, of which 120,000 are excellent ones, especially bronzes, ceramics, calligraphy and paintings. It collects bronzes from Baoji, Henan and Hunan provinces. It has the reputation of "half a wall of rivers and mountains" in the field of cultural relics. It is a large Museum of ancient Chinese art.

The exhibition area of Shanghai Museum totals 12,000 square meters. The first floor is the ancient bronze hall, the ancient sculpture hall and exhibition hall of China; the second floor is the ancient Chinese ceramics hall, the temporary building ceramics hall and Exhibition hall; the third floor is the Chinese calligraphy hall, the Chinese painting gallery and the Chinese printing Hall of past dynasties; the fourth floor is the ancient Chinese jade hall. China Ming and Qing Furniture Museum, China Minority Arts Museum and Exhibition Hall.

Ancient Bronze Hall: The exhibition hall of Ancient Chinese Bronze Hall covers an area of 1200 square meters, in which more than 400 exquisite bronzes are displayed. In the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, bronzes were an important symbol of ancient social civilization. The bronze wares collected in Shanghai Museum are characterized by long inscriptions and more descriptions. The new exhibits also include important cultural relics such as Jin Waiting Wares of the Western Zhou Dynasty and Qin Gong Wares of the early Qin Dynasty.

Ancient Sculpture Museum: The exhibition hall of Ancient Chinese Sculpture Museum covers an area of 640 square meters, including more than 120 exhibits. The exhibition hall uses gold, red and black as basic tones, lotus petals as partitions in Buddhist art, niches in grotto temples as closets, and display forms. In addition to the display of some wood and pottery sculptures, mainly stone sculptures, there are sculptures of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Sui and Tang Dynasties, as well as southern stone carvings, bronze Buddha statues and so on.

Ancient Ceramic Museum: The exhibition hall of Ancient Chinese Ceramic Museum covers an area of 1300 square meters, with more than 500 exhibits on display. Among them are Neolithic painted pottery and grey pottery, primitive Celadon of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, Celadon of Eastern Han Dynasty, and three colors of Tang Dynasty. In the Song, Jin and Liao dynasties, kiln farms stood in great numbers all over the country. In the three generations of Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jingdezhen became the center of China's ceramics industry, and the firing of underglaze, overglaze and color glazed pottery were on display.

Calligraphy galleries of past dynasties: Chinese calligraphy galleries of past dynasties have collected typical masterpieces of different periods and systematically displayed the historical track of Chinese calligraphy art. The exhibition hall is illuminated by frame and auto-sensing lighting.

Seal Seal Museum of All Dynasties: Seal Museum of All Dynasties in China is the first special exhibition seal art museum in China. The exhibition hall covers an area of 380 square meters and exhibits more than 500 seals and seals. The whole exhibition is based on the development history of seal art. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, it is a representative and artistic boutique selected from the collection of more than 10,000 seal cultural relics. With the help of high and low scattered in the exhibition hall

The exhibition cabinet, using a variety of technical means, so that the physical and auxiliary display of each other.

Painting galleries of past dynasties: the exhibition hall covers an area of 1200 square meters, displaying more than 120 fine paintings of past dynasties. From Tang Dynasty to modern times, all kinds of paintings are reflected. Painting has a profound tradition and unique national style. It is a plastic art with brush, ink and silk paper as the main tools and dot-line structure as the main means of expression. In order to effectively protect exhibits and facilitate viewers'appreciation, the inductive light which automatically adjusts the illumination is also used in the exhibition room.

Ethnic Arts and Crafts Museum: The exhibition hall covers an area of more than 700 square meters. It displays nearly 600 pieces of ethnic minority costumes, dyeing, weaving, embroidery, metal crafts, sculptures, pottery, lacquerware, rattan and bamboo weaving and mask art. It shows the peculiar style of minority handicraft.

Coin Museum of the past dynasties: The exhibition hall covers an area of 730 square meters. Through nearly 7000 cultural relics, it shows a historical overview of the occurrence, development and economic and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. There are also ancient coin offices in Central Asia on the Silk Road donated by Du Weishan and Tan Duanyan.

Ming and Qing residence Museum: Furniture hall 700 square meters exhibition hall shows more than 100 pieces of Chinese furniture essence in the Ming and Qing Dyn

Ancient Jade Museum: China is known as the "country of jade" and has a history of more than 7,000 years. In ancient society, jade was not only used for decoration, but also a symbol of wealth and power. It was also a magic object for rulers to worship heaven and earth and communicate gods.

Since 1976, Shanghai Museum and Yugoslav Youth Publishing House, Japan Talk Agency, Hong Kong Triple Bookstore, Japan NHK Publishing Association Press, Japan Ordinary Society, Hong Kong Daye Company and other publishing agencies have jointly published 12 major publications, including Shanghai Museum, Blue and White Glaze Red, and Shanghai Museum Treasure Collection. Catalogues and monographs.

Since 1985, 28 catalogues of overseas exhibitions have been published, including comprehensive expositions, specific introduction of each exhibit and several texts. In addition, 92 catalogues and monographs have been published, such as "Shanghai Museum Collection Paintings", "Shanghai Museum Collection Bronzes", "Selected Porcelain Collections of Shanghai Museum", "Shanghai Museum Collection Calligraphy" and "Shanghai Museum Collection Ming and Qing Fans".

In 1987, in order to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the museum, the Shanghai Museum published 10 kinds of collections, including Bronze Mirror in Shanghai Museum, Red Porcelain in Blue and White Glaze, Calligraphy and Painting Atlas of Yunnantian, Seals and Notes of Chinese Calligraphers and Painters, and Longze-Special Collection of Report on Excavation of Neolithic Sites.

In 1990, a large-scale catalogue of the Collection of the Four Great Monks in the Early Qing Dynasty was published.

Eight Atlas of Coins Collection in Shanghai Museum published in 1994.

Academic journals

From 1985 to 1988, 14 issues of "Natural Science and Archaeological Technology of Cultural Relics Abroad" were compiled.

In 1989, the Journal of Cultural Relics Conservation and Archaeology was founded. It is not only a laboratory research bulletin, but also the only national academic journal of cultural relics protection technology.

Restoration of Cultural Relics

In 1958, the Shanghai Museum set up a cultural relics restoration workshop, which mainly restored and reproduced the museum's treasures. At the same time, it also restored cultural relics and mounted paintings for other museums and foreign museums. By 1995, more than 1,400 pieces of bronzes and ceramics were restored, such as the original incomplete merchant father Ding Mao, which was broken into more than 70 pieces of tortuous Thunder Mao in the Western Zhou Dynasty. A pair of severely damaged dragon ears in the early Spring and Autumn Period were rescued from the scrap copper and restored to their original appearance.

The workshop also mounted more than 1,800 books and paintings in the library, many of which are important cultural relics circulating, such as Wang Xizhi's Shangyu Tie and Tang Sun-bian's Gaoyi Picture Volume, which were carefully mounted and properly protected. Especially the Ming Chenghua Rap Book, which was unearthed as a "book cake", has been perfectly preserved through the cooperation of cultural relics protection scientists and painting mounters.