Shanghai Historical Museum

The lobby in the Holiday Inn - Shanghai .  All decorated for the New Year

Notice the Red Envelopes on the tree
A tradition in China for the New Year - money is inside

The National Museum in Shanghai

Entrance to the National Museum

Inside of the Museum

Pictures of a few of the items that date back to 561 BC  
They all look new, no chips, broken pieces...incredible.

This is what one type of kiln looked like with 600 degree temps

Many school children visiting the museum on a Saturday 
with their teacher.  I am sure they loved all of this pottery.

Beautiful floor at the entrance of the museum

Many minorities in China and a bit hard to see from this map

The modern city skyline

A very fancy city wall covered with cabbage and flowers
all in individual pots

Very overcast and rain.  We went to the top of the tall,
slender tower on the left.  Reminded us of the 
Space Needle in Washington

The "older" city with the Russian, British influence. 
 Peace Hotel on the right where treaties were signed.

The center piece of the Peace Hotel...very fancy hotel

Room please!

Umbrella's for sale today and we needed two.

Second largest "tower" in China and 5th in the world. 
The Space Needle in Seattle was just as spectacular.

The tower is ready for Chinese New Year

This is all that we could see on such a smoggy, 
rainy day..we walked on glass and looked down

This was a very cool round about and notice that t
he pedestrians can walk all along the outside to get to their street.  
The center is all decorated in flowers.

We toured a fantastic historical museum. The first cars in China

Public transportation - notice where the steering wheel is located (British)

Typical kitchen in China years ago

The first treadmill...no, he is grinding grain

Fancy shoes - platform shoes

A typical Chinese home many years ago