Shanghai Museum is one of China's four greatest museums, and the other three are Beijing Museum, Nanjing Museum and Xian Museum. The new Shanghai Museum was finally established in 1995. It is located in the south of People's Square in the center of Shanghai's downtown.

Shanghai Museum is word-renowned for its fine and rare collection of a large number of artistic heritages at home and abroad. Among them, bronze-wares, chinawares and traditional paintings of different dynasties are more attractive and sparkling.

The bronze-wares in Shanghai Museum are famous and antiques that collected by several great collectors lived in southern zone of Yangtze River. The chinawares in Shanghai Museum are those great ones discovered or well preserved in southern zone of Yangtze River. For example, the crockery with elaborate engraving made in the pre-historical periods is the rare and valuable antiques. The rare and precious celadon is also another unique feature varying from other museums in China.

The collection of traditional paintings in Shanghai Museum is considered to cover the half of amount of antique paintings in China. In calligraphy, Yatouwantie created by Wang Xianzhi, a great calligrapher in Eastern Jin Dynasty (317 - 420), and he was son of China's greatest master in calligraphy. The extractive, systematic and representative scrolling and paintings created by calligraphers and painters in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The old coin collection has the largest scale in China. Its collection of seal is the first place in China too.