Shanghai Museum East Campus
Six-story showcase of ancient Chinese art holding bronzes, jades, and a gold-masked Bronze Age face restored on site.
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This guide to the Shanghai Museum East Campus centers on a bronze head wearing a gold mask, buried for three thousand years and dug up in 2021 at the Sanxingdui site in southwest China, a Bronze Age culture that vanished without leaving a single written word. You'll hear why archaeologists still argue over whose civilization made it, and what conservators here had to do, patiently, over months, to bring the crushed gold and hairline cracks back into a face. The guide also traces the seven years spent building the campus meant to finally hold it.
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