Laura Pye, director of National Museums Liverpool, said the area “has one of the oldest and largest Chinese communities in Europe” and the museum was “looking forward to bringing this vast collection to our city”.
Hu Muqing, president of Shanghai Art Collection Museum, said: “Liverpool and Shanghai are both port cities connected by the ocean, bounded over years through a strong sister-city partnership.”
He said he hoped the exhibition “will help foster mutual understanding and further deepen our friendship”.