Fifties or sixties,the interchange of the Shanghai museum mainly reception to visit on display. Seventies, it began to organize the professional exchange, and hold the academic forum and so on. Eighties, arroding to the development of the reform and openness, it opened up a new area for the foreigners to exchange. For example,

It organized the Shanghai Museum collection of Chinese bronzes exhibition, the China blue and white porcelain exhibition, Chinese calligraphy and famous exhibition, the Century Exhibition of Dong Qichang, the Shanghai Museum Collections Arts & Crafts Exhibition, Shanghai Museum Liangzhu Culture Museum Collection and so on from 1980. These exhibitions were exhibited in USA, Japan, Italy, Franch, the federal Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Mexico, Sweden and Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and other 13 countries and appreciated by the people all over the world. Chinese Art Exhibition for six thousand years was exhibited in the San Francisco, Chicago, Washington,  Houston, and achieved perfect results.

Shanghai museum aslo assist to hold the host foreign exhibition and exhibition. From 1978, it exhibited the American Indian relics and western painter works exhibition, the monetary exhibition, the Japanese prints exhibition and others. It deepened to understand other cultures.

Have a long list of donors in the museum, there are already 800 more than the donor's name. Wangqing have been disclosed: the Shanghai Museum collection and build a museum at the beginning of 9000, to nearly one million, of which nearly 1/10 collections from private donors. Originally, overseas Chinese, Chinese and Hong Kong and Macao compatriots have contributed more than 10 million U.S. dollars. To the private collectors, they not only value the honor, but the most important is how to treat their collections by the museum. Because the most sincere attitude and emotional and the most appropriate way with the collectors and the audience to communicate by Shanghai museum, a wider audience the privilege of witnessing these artistic treasures.