Shanghai Museum

Last weekend we stayed around Shanghai and decided to see a few sights in the city. I was starting to feel a bit uncultured having been in a new city for almost two months and barely visiting any museums. I was sick, yet again (and still am actually) so we didn't plan to stay very long. Ah, the joys of working in schools; I get colds constantly.

We didn't make it out of the house until about 1:30 and then we stopped at the food court at Metro City, one of a half dozen shopping malls in Xujiahui, for roti stuffed with fruit and I got distracted searching the English section of the bookstore for things my students might like. By the time we actually made it to the museum we only had two hours before we had to head home and make brownies to bring for Hiraa's yummy home cooked Pakistani dinner.

The photo of Danny, in desperate need of a haircut, is him in front of the museum. The weird alien spaceship shaped building is the view of the Radisson from the museum. Don't quite know what they were going for but I like it.














The museum had a little line at the security check to get in. They let me bring water inside but made me drink some to prove it wasn't gasoline or something.

The museum itself was pretty small. We definitely could get through the whole place in an afternoon if I was being more ambitious. We ended up just looking at the paintings and the pottery. The collection was pretty nice. Here are a few pictures of what I saw. I really wish we had a better camera because these aren't the best shots.