Shanghai museum promotes public aesthetic education through art
The Museum of Art Pudong (MAP) is celebrating its fourth anniversary with the theme "Flow in MAP," ushering in a new chapter of artistic exploration. To mark this milestone, the museum has launched a series of vibrant anniversary events. The museum continues to embrace the public with an increasingly open and dynamic posture — connecting with the city of Shanghai.
MAP broke ground on September 26, 2017, and opened to the public in July, 2021. It is primarily set out to present world-class exhibitions to its audience, and to showcase domestic artists.
Over the past year, MAP has hosted more than 300 online and in-person events, offering diverse and dynamic artistic experiences that enrich the city's cultural ecosystem. The museum welcomed over 700,000 visitors in the past year alone, bringing its four-year total to nearly 3 million – drawing audiences of all ages from both China and abroad.
With outstanding achievements in curatorial practice, public services and cultural outreach, MAP has been awarded the title of "Star-Rated Art Museum of Shanghai" and received over 30 awards and honors.
As public arts education becomes increasingly important in China, MAP continues to expand its efforts in arts education. In 2024, it organized nearly 150 public education programs, and more than 110,000 people took part in them. Nearly 10,000 teachers and students visited the museum to take part in extracurricular art education programs, gaining knowledge and sparking imagination.
MAP is offering diverse and dynamic artistic experiences that enrich Shanghai's cultural ecosystem. /CGTN
China is incorporating aesthetic education into its national strategic plan for high-quality educational development. A multi-agency coordination mechanism is being established to advance this initiative, while broader social participation is actively encouraged.
In the first half of this year, MAP presented two major exhibitions: "Chen Yifei: A Retrospective on Art and Legacy" and "Paths to Modernity: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris." Spanning from the cosmopolitan elegance of 20th-century Shanghai to the sweeping artistic developments of France from the 1840s to the early 20th century, the two exhibitions together wove a cultural scroll that captures both the pulse of Shanghai and the tides of the century.