In a big City Like Shanghai there are many museums, or so I am told.
There is one Museum known as the Shanghai Museum, which has a very modern outward
appearance, but inside it is contains many ancient relics of China’s past.
According to their website, www.shanghaimuseum.net, there are eleven galleries that showcase many types
of art including sculptures, paintings, and calligraphy. Some sculptures are
made from a popular mineral known as jade. Jade is a medium chosen by many
artists and sculptors for its beauty and meaning in Chinese Culture. Jade is
said to even contain healing properties. I will be particularly interested to
examine the Jade art. I have always admired it for its natural beauty.
Museums are the window through which we look into the past. I like
museums because they often house the proof that the past actually happened. You
and I were not in the past so we cannot testify to its existence. Without the artifacts housed inside of museums we could never really verify that the past even occurred. Without museums
we would never really know what has come before us, if anything at all. So a
visit to the Shanghai museum will be a glimpse into China’s past. Consider the
Jade Exhibit, no doubt will there be priceless artifacts from the past, each
with a unique story of how it came to be. With that story and that artifact
comes a physical link to the past that is otherwise completely gone.
