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Shanghai Museum unveils exhibition line-up for 2025
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Twelve new exhibitions are on Shanghai Museum’s list this year.
The highlights at its venue at People’s Square will start with an exhibition titled “Spring: A Celebration of the Year of the Snake,” running from today to March 2.
In Chinese culture, the snake is known as the “little dragon,” which is also one of the original symbols of the dragon totems. The exhibition will feature 13 groups of Chinese and foreign cultural relics from Yunnan Lijiashan Bronze Museum, Hubei Provincial Museum and Shanghai Museum’s own collection. The exhibition will give visitors an insight into the snake legend in Chinese history.
Another exhibition shows how China was one of the first countries to use lacquer.
To showcase Chinese lacquer culture, especially precious Song (AD 960-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) heirlooms, the museum and the National Museum of Tokyo will co-host an exhibition in the fall, with nearly 200 pieces of Chinese lacquerware from a number of renowned collections in Japan, mainly the Tokyo museum.
Another highlight of the year at Shanghai Museum is an exhibition of Chinese cheongsams from 1912 to 1949 collected by Jeff Chang and Patricia Pei, the sister of renowned Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei. The exhibition will cover a century of modern life and how cheongsam became representative of Chinese women’s clothing around the globe.
“Impression Party — the Collection of the Impressionistic Masterpieces from Pola Art Museum” is the undoubted highlight at Shanghai Museum East in the Pudong New Area.
From January 22 to April 21, the branch on the eastern bank of the Huangpu River will host the Japanese art museum’s largest overseas exhibition with works from artists that include Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir and Picasso.
Abroad, in an exchange program between Shanghai Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, “Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronze 1100-1900” will take place at the Met from February 28 to September 28.
This exhibition will focus on the treasures of Chinese bronzes during the period, together with the lacquer, ceramics and jade of the time. The 200 exhibits are on loan from the collections of Chinese and foreign museums, including Shanghai Museum, the Palace Museum, the Met and the British Museum.
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