The time sequence changes, and things are abundant every year. In 2024, the World Expo Museum will present ten temporary exhibitions around the three major themes of "Integration of East and West","Design Art" and "Expo World".

　　In the warm spring, an exhibition of Japanese cultural relics from the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada, the fifth largest museum in North America, will be launched to interpret the aesthetics of oriental life. Later, fiber installation art with great visual beauty, public space art with contemporary expression of traditional culture, and works of overseas graphic design masters will take you to experience the beauty of design art.

　　At the beginning of summer, a special exhibition on metal enamel painting from the Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong showcased the exquisite craftsmanship and lasting charm of enamel objects. In the summer holiday, a highly visually impactful digital art exhibition will kick off here, presenting the audience with a dialogue between Chinese shadow puppetry and ukiyo-e art in a digital immersive atmosphere.

　　In the golden autumn, the works of Pan Yuliang, a famous female painter travelling in France who enjoyed great reputation in the 20th century, will be unveiled at the World Expo Museum. In addition, wet will reveal the achievements of Chinese brands on the world stage and tell the story of World Expo China a hundred years ago.

　　In the clear winter, the World Expo Museum explores its collections and interprets the charm of multiculturalism at the World Expo.

　　In 2024, the World Expo Museum will enjoy the event together with everyone, and jointly create a better life experience.

　　01 Pure Elegance of Eastern Aesthetics - Highlights from the Japanese Collection of the ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

　　Time: January 28 to April 7, 2024

　　Location: Temporary Exhibition Hall No. 1 of World Expo Hall

　　The exhibition will exhibit 91 pieces of cultural objects which were originally displayed in the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada's largest museum with a leading international vision, to present the aesthetics of life in the Edo Period of Japan and its relationship with the Chinese culture. During the Edo period, social life was centered on cities, and the simple beauty of their utensils has become a representative element of Japanese culture. This exhibition explores the craftsmanship of traditional utensils more intuitively, deduces the absorption process of Japanese culture, and interprets the unique beauty of Oriental culture through tea wares, lacquerwares, Ukiyo-e and etc.

　　02 Memory Story - Fiber Art Exhibition

　　Time: January 30 to March 31, 2024

　　Location: Temporary Exhibition Hall No. 2 and 3 of World Expo Hall

　　The exhibition will use 36 pieces/sets of fiber installation art works by well-known artists, five major themes, and six unique display spaces to interpret the link between fiber art and nature and guide people's philosophical thinking about the past and the future. At the same time, with the unique perseverance and flexibility of fiber art, it can inject a source of positive thoughts into people's start of the new year. The unique beauty and spatial art atmosphere of fiber art will also open a new window for the World Expo Museum to connect with installation art. We look forward to the audience starting from here to further explore a new chapter in the combination of life and art.

　　03 Zhengzheng Rishang

　　Time: January 30 to February 29, 2024

　　Location: North Hall of World Expo Center

　　In traditional Chinese culture, swallows, butterflies and swimming fish all have beautiful meanings. On the occasion of the New Year in the Year of the Dragon, the World Expo Museum will display the installation work "Symmetry Series-Kite" by contemporary artist Chen Fenwan in the public space, allowing the audience to appreciate the contemporary expression of traditional culture, and bless everyone who sees the work with a "good luck". The artist conducted an in-depth study of traditional Chinese intangible cultural heritage crafts, extracted the artistic essence of symmetry, and combined it with modern creative ideas to create works that have both traditional charm and contemporary perspectives. As the New Year approaches, viewers can interact closely with this work and experience the joy unique to the festival.

　　04 The Art of Posters - Japanese Classic Poster Exhibition

　　Time: Mid-April to mid-May 2024

　　Location: North Hall of World Expo Center

　　With the theme of "Diversity of Life and Sustainable Development", the exhibition features 14 "top leaders" in the graphic design world, including Nagai Kazumasa, Aoba Masuki, and Katsui Mizuo, spanning 40 years, 31 series, and more than 80 pieces of poster design work. Through the exhibition, you can not only feel the designer's thinking, interpretation and performance of nature, life and the future in different dimensions, but also appreciate different forms of printing technology and artistic interpretation. The exhibition was co-created by the World Expo Museum and the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University. It is a warm-up for the World Expo Museum to participate in the 2025 World Expo. It is also a continuation of the "World Expo and Art" themed exhibition.

　　05 Special Exhibition of Guangdong Metal Body Painting and Enamel in the Qing Dynasty

　　Time: Late April to late July 2024

　　Location: Exhibition Hall No. 1, World Expo Hall

　　In the late Kangxi period, European merchants and missionaries brought metal-painted enamelware to China as gifts. This exquisite Western technique aroused Kangxi Emperor’s great interest. During the same period, Guangzhou introduced European technology, combined with Chinese craftsmanship, and gradually developed Guangzhou enamel that was comparable to the West. Guang enamel was once sold in Europe, America, Southeast Asia and other countries, and was paid tribute to the Qing court in large quantities during the Qianlong period. If you carefully study the shape, materials, production methods, colors, patterns and even painting techniques of a piece of Guangzhou enamel work, you will find that every aspect reflects the exquisite fusion of Chinese and Western. Early Cantonese enamel works are rarely exhibited. We hope that through this exhibition in collaboration with the Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the audience can appreciate the beauty of Cantonese enamel craftsmanship.

　　06 Oriental Dream

　　Thousand-year dialogue between intangible cultural heritage shadow puppet art and ukiyo-e art

　　Time: May to November 2024

　　Location: Temporary Exhibition Hall No. 2 and 3 of World Expo Hall

　　Chinese shadow puppetry originated in the Western Han Dynasty and is one of the representatives of traditional Chinese folk art. It was selected into the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2011. Ukiyo-e is a woodblock print that was popular among Japanese folk in the Edo period and was derived from the woodblock prints of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in China. It has had a profound impact on modern art in the world. In the summer of 2024, the World Expo Museum will join forces with the well-known digital art institution Temple of Light to present an immersive dialogue between Chinese shadow puppets and ukiyo-e across time and space. The collision and exchange of contemporary digital language and traditional folk culture will bring audiences a multi-sensory oriental art aesthetic experience journey that integrates vision and hearing.

　　07 Pan Yuliang Exhibition

　　Time: Mid-August to mid-November 2024

　　Location: Exhibition Hall No. 1, World Expo Hall

　　Pan Yuliang (1895-1977) was a famous female painter who enjoyed high reputation in the 20th century and was the earliest famous female painter living in France in modern China. She came from a poor family but had lofty aspirations. As a rare female artist, she became a pioneer in integrating Chinese and Western painting styles. Pan Yuliang lived in Shanghai for more than ten years, which coincided with the rapid development of Chinese art. As a pioneer in the integration of Chinese and Western cultures, Shanghai's unique artistic atmosphere nourished the growth of Pan Yuliang's painting skills. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, we will join hands with Anhui Museum to launch this exhibition. We hope that viewers can appreciate Pan Yuliang's artistic style and appreciate the artistic works that integrate Chinese and Western art. In this uniquely significant place in Shanghai, we can review and recreate his story and life situations, and renew the artistic relationship between Pan Yuliang and Shanghai.

　　08 Go to the world cooperation exhibition

　　Time: October to November 2024

　　Location: North Hall of World Expo Center

　　The exhibition will focus on China's award-winning exhibits at the World Expo a century ago, unearth China's stories on the early World Expo stage, allow the audience to explore the process of Chinese products entering the international stage, and view the development of Chinese corporate culture from the perspective of the World Expo. This type will also start the cooperation between the World Expo Museum and World Expo products.

　　09 African Art Exhibition

　　Time: December 2024 to March 2025

　　Location: Temporary Exhibition Hall No. 2 and 3 of World Expo Hall

　　There are many ethnic groups and tribes on the land of Africa. They have created rich and colorful wood carving art with exaggerated and tense shapes. They have brought countless inspirations to modern art and have been presented at the World Expo many times. At the African art exhibition, visitors can see typical African shapes such as the Chiwara of the Bambara people, the wooden door of the Dogon people, and the white mask of the Punu people (Okuyi), and explore a unique world view which has the intertwining of the present world with the mysterious worlds of ancestors and gods, or simply feel the rhythm and beauty of art.

　　10 World Expo Historical Documents Exhibition

　　Time: November 2024 to February 2025

　　Location: Exhibition Hall No. 1, World Expo Hall

　　The exhibition will display the historical documents and printed materials collected by the museum in the past five years, add application scenes of historical documents and build an interactive exchange scene outside the library to vividly display the documents which were originally stored in the storage shelves of the warehouse. The aim is to tell the Expo stories hidden in the publications to the world, and make them "come alive". It is also a manifestation of our museum's commitment to the Expo documents collection and protection project over the years as the official document research center of the State Bureau of Exhibitions.

　　HAPPY NEW YEAR

　　HAPPY NEW YEAR

　　*The above is the annual exhibition plan, the specific exhibition will be subject to the actual exhibition.