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The Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MoCA Shanghai; Chinese: 上海当代艺术馆) is a contemporary art museum in the city of Shanghai, China. [2] It is located within People's Park, north of People's Square, the location of a former racecourse that now holds the central administrative building and museums of Shanghai.
Shanghai: Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, ... Petit Palais, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ...
The new museum is part of an effort to expand the display of contemporary arts beyond Paris's large museums. The new museum's building was designed by the architect Shigeru Ban with a curving and asymmetrical pagoda-like roof topped by a spire and punctured by upper galleries. The 77-metre central spire is a nod to the year the Centre Georges ...
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (French pronunciation: [myze daʁ mɔdɛʁn də paʁi], in full the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris) or MAM Paris, is a major municipal museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries, including monumental murals by Raoul Dufy, Gaston Suisse, [1] and Henri Matisse. [2]
The Power Station of Art (Chinese: 上海当代艺术博物馆; lit. 'Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum') is a municipal contemporary art museum in Huangpu , Shanghai , China. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The museum is a public institution that is funded by the Shanghai City Culture and Tourism Bureau.
The Shanghai Race Club building, where the Shanghai Art Museum was previously housed in, which remained open until 31 December 2012, receiving more than 12,000 visitors in its last two days. [9] The new building of the art museum, which is the China Pavilion from Expo 2010, spans 64,000 sq. meters and is more than ten times larger than the art ...
The museum has a collection of over 120,000 pieces, including bronze, ceramics, calligraphy, furniture, jades, ancient coins, paintings, seals, sculptures, minority art and foreign art. The Shanghai Museum houses several items of national importance, including one of three extant specimens of a "transparent" bronze mirror from the Han dynasty .
The museum has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, [2] and second largest in the world, after the Museum of Modern Art in New York, with more than 100,000 works of art by 6,400 artists from 90 countries since Fauvism in 1905. These works include painting, sculpture, drawing, print, photography, cinema, new media ...