Long Museum
Riverside private art museum in vaulted concrete halls, built from a former coal wharf, showing Chinese and international art.
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This guide to Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai turns on Liu Yiqian, a former taxi driver and handbag seller who became one of China's biggest art collectors, and the six-hundred-year-old imperial teacup he brought into these vaulted concrete halls in a purchase that scandalized collectors nationwide. You'll hear how he and his wife, Wang Wei, built the museum on a stretch of riverfront that used to hold coal docks and cement works, arching its unbroken concrete vaults with a tunnel-boring technique borrowed from the subway. Stand beneath those vaults and look for the porcelain cup that started it all.
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