Built in 1996, Shanghai's vast museum houses one of the greatest collections of ancient Chinese art in the world, some pieces dating back to 600 BC. At its center is an enormous atrium, with open staircases allowing visitors to flow easily from floor to floor and gallery to gallery. I wanted to emphasize the handsome design, modernity and convenience of the structure as well as its huge size and scale. I used a relatively slow shutter speed, less than 1/15th of a second, allowing me to shoot indoors at ISO 100, with light coming largely from an overhead skylight. The three moving figures moving down the top staircase are blurred, which add a sense of movement and flow to the image, while the other people in the picture are static. I particularly liked the silhouetted figure framed in the entrance to the gallery at the very top of the picture. He stands poised for an adventure in ancient art like none other in the world.