On Saturday morning the Shanghai Museum had a line snaking a half mile through the parking lots made up of suburban school children and Chinese tourists. (There was a much smaller line at the handicap entrance of western tourists and their paid guides).
With 120,000 exhibits and well designed guides it is probably the best Asian museum outside the new ones in Beijing and SanFrancisco. The most famous are the Bronzes Gallery and the Ceramics Gallery. A unique feature is that they display matched pairs going back 6000 years.
They also introduce the 55 non-Han ethnic groups through clothing and handicrafts.
Still topped by the newer Beijing museum, Shaighai bosts an incredible 120,000 exibits with its most famous collection being the bronzes gallery, 6000 year old pottery and an enormous variety of porcelain. And jade, some dating back 5000 years. Also handicrafts and clothing of the 55 non-Han ethnic groups now composing modern China.
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