Shanghai Art Museum (Shanghai Meishu Guan)

Day 2- Shanghai
Shanghai! Finally, Shanghai. I had given up hope of going to Shanghai. I thought that it was too far, maybe 15-20 hours by train, or too expensive. I was excited about this trip, but especially excited to see Shanghai. I had heard good things. My first roommate said that it was clean and beautiful. My first manager said that it …

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At 4:30AM we wake up from the wind and rain beating against our windows. When we check around 7 AM, the rain has stopped but it is really windy, no boats are on the river and there isn't even one person walking on the Bund. By 8:30AM the rain is back again! I guess it will be that sort of day. We have our …

Let the touring begin!

We all gathered in the lobby to meet our Viking escorts and our fellow passengers. There were about 30 assigned to each escort and we would be together for the next 16 days. As I said before, our guide was Larry. All of the guides (and in fact most who have dealings with the Western world) choose English names. All …

...and you will understand many things." China seems to be one of those places where anything is possible. I don't mean that in the sense that "you can be anything you want to be," but rather that everything is so unpredictable that you begin to expect the unexpected. Aside from the delicious (and absurdly inexpensive) food...dumplings in …

maglev to city center.
bus to lunch on the Bund
what is name of tower …

I've come up with a theory. The bigger the city, the less that happens, for me that is. You can see I have too much time on my hands. Now I'm developing useless theories. Some would say I've been doing that for years. I guess many theories are useless. That's why they're called "theories".As you can see, I'm struggling to write a story about …

... profanities you can imagine. I have included several photos of them for your amusement. The last museum I visited was the Shanghai art museum, which was just ok. Some of the exhibits were inspiring, but most left me bored. Ok, sorry for the novel but I ...

... . After all of the conference events wrapped up, we finally had a little free time for exploring. I spent all afternoon at the art museum on Sunday, couldn't get a cab anywhere because it was raining, and got hopelessly lost trying to navigate the bus ...

... a resto with view is chosen which is full. Second choice is the Kathleen 5. When we take a taxi there (on top of the Shanghai Art Museum), we point the way to the Shanghai MUSEUM and end up in the wrong place!!!! In the middle of that huuuuuge city. Then ...

... ethnic costumes are also on offer, intelligently displayed in comprehensive English. From the museum we continued on to the Shanghai Art Museum the city’s premier art gallery. Housed in the former Shanghai Racecourse Club, a gorgeous neo-Georgian ...

... out of. It's lucky that table manners aren't too strict in China. To work off the calories, we headed to the propoganda art museum - as recommended by my brother Chris. It's a collection of poster art stored in the basement of a residential tower block ...

... . The hotel has all of the finest amenities of a modern hotel, but in elegant traditional 1930's surroundings. The Shanghai Art Museum is located inside the clubhouse building of the Shanghai Racing Club. Located in the center of Shanghai near the ...

... around, we came across several groups of older people ballroom dancing and doing exercises in the street. We visited the Shanghai art museum, then an antique shopping 'market'. The "antiques" were all the same at each little booth, so something tells me ...

... some tickets to Shanghai Circus World, an acrobatic show recommended in our guide book. Our first stop via cab was the Shanghai Art Museum. In line, the staring continued. A little girl behind us got in trouble because she kept reaching out to touch ...

... bezeichnen. Es lassen sich durchaus einige Stunden mit der Besichtigung der vielen Exponate verbringen, kein Vergleich mit dem Shanghai Art Museum im People Park, sondern um Klassen vielfältiger und interessanter. Ein Künstler war äußerst ...

... the Yu Yuan Garden I visited last week. I also found a book on Beijing's Tea Culture. We then went to the Shanghai Art Museum. Parked in front was an old steam locomotive. I love steam trains. There is something wonderfully romantic about them. I ...