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Photograph a permitted work in Nanjing Museum and Lensmark tells you who made it, when, and why it matters, with every fact linked to its source.

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Nanjing Museum

Nanjing, China

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Take a photo and read the work's sourced story

Illustrative photo demo

Illustrative collection

  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your Nanjing Museum walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

The illustrative demo shows a detail of Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam. The walks show Pont Alexandre III, Hintze Hall, Elizabeth Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Trevi Fountain and the Colosseum. These rights-cleared Lensmark images are examples, not works from Nanjing Museum.

What the Nanjing Museum collection covers

Nanjing Museum brings together Chinese art and archaeological finds from Jiangsu. Its digital collection presents an animal-shaped inkstone box and an ox-shaped lamp from the Eastern Han period. Collection

Porcelain, painting and calligraphy sit alongside ancient metalwork in the museum's collection. A brick relief of the Seven Sages and Rong Qiqi adds another way to explore how artists represented historical figures.

Its collection strengths include Ming and Qing imperial porcelain, Jiangsu archaeological finds, Chinese painting and calligraphy, and Ancient Chinese metalwork.

  • Eastern Han copper inkstone box inlaid with gold, silver and gemstones

    Unknown Eastern Han artisan

    Date
    Eastern Han

    This animal-shaped inkstone box combines gold, silver and gemstones. The museum's digital record identifies it as an Eastern Han object.

    Read the museum record

  • Han dynasty silver-inlaid bronze ox lamp

    Unknown Han-dynasty artisan

    Date
    Eastern Han

    This bronze lamp takes the form of an ox and is decorated with silver inlay. The museum's digital record places it in the Eastern Han period.

    Read the museum record

  • Brick relief of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi

    Unknown historical Chinese artist

    Date
    Southern Dynasties

    This molded brick picture brings together the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi. The museum's 2022 annual identifies the bricks as a Southern Dynasties work.

These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

Check the photography rules first

Nanjing Museum prohibits flash and commercial photography or video equipment, including camera cranes, selfie sticks and floor-standing tripods; its security rules also prohibit bringing professional lights, tripods, monopods, camera stands, video cameras, reflectors, fill lights and drones. Take photographs only where staff and gallery rules allow them. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs before taking a photo. Nanjing Museum photography policy

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