Shaghai Museums

Shaghai Museums

Museum of Oriental Musical Instruments Add:　20 Fenyang Rd. Shanghai Tel:　+86 21 64370137 Ext.2134 Located inside the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the museum has collected and displayed more than 400 instruments. It has 4 parts, the Chinese Ancient Instruments, the Present Chinese Instruments, the Instruments of China's   Minority Nationalities and the Instruments of Foreign Minority Nationalities. The musical instruments of the foreign minority nationalities are from Korea, India, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Russia, Australia and West African countries and regions.     Shanghai Natural Wild-Insect Kingdom Add:　1 Fenghe Rd, Pudong Tel:　+86 21 58406950 Public transport:　The closest metro station to the tower is Lujiazui Station on Metro Line No.2. Visiting Hours:　9:00-17:00 Website:　www.shinsect.com     Shanghai Natural Wild-Insect Kingdom, located between the Riverside Promenade and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, is the first of its kind in China. The birds and the bees, the beetles and the butterflies, all your usual creepy crawlies are on display in this kingdom housing several galleries, including a tropical rainforest and a reptile cave. Some of the insect models can be pretty tacky to adult eyes, but kids like the interactive exhibits where they can feed critters and catch fish.     Madame Tussauds Wax Museum Add:　10/F, New World Department Store, No.2-26 West Nanjing Road Tel:　+86 21 63587878 Public transport:　Metro Line 1 and Metro Line 2 at People's Square Station Website:　www.madame-tussauds.com.cn     Hundreds of millions of people have flocked through the doors of Madame Tussauds since they first opened over 200 years ago and it remains as popular today as it ever was. There are many reasons for this enduring success, the most important reason is the people's curiosity. Visitors will have an opportunity to take an emotionally journey through the realms of the powerful and famous celebrities.     Navy Shanghai Museum Add:　68 Tanghou Rd. Wusong, Shanghai Tel:　+86 21 56163295 The Navy Shanghai Museum consists of 4 exhibition halls. The exhibition of the navy history: there are over 5,000 pictures and over 1,500 objects, describing the historical evolution of   China's Coastal Defense, modern history of China's territorial sea, the composition of the history of development of the People's Navy. Exhibition of Navy Equipment: over 1,000 pictures and 500 pieces of arms, ship and plane models, Showroom of Ships and Planes, shooting range for light-duty arms. Exhibition of Marine Education: consisting of marine wonders and marine art, the mysterious and beautiful sea world, magnificent objects in the sea, over 1,000 artworks of paintings, sculptures, porcelain, and wax printing and over 1,000 pictures. All these vividly impress one with the sense of national territory, marine economy and marine culture.     Shanghai Museum of TCM Add:　1200 Cailun Rd. Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New Area Tel:　+86 21 51322710, 51322712 Public transport:　Zhangnan Bus Line, Tangchuan Bus Line, Daqiao 5 Bus Line, Daqiao 6 Bus Line, Metro Line 2 at Zhangjiang Station Visiting hours:　9:00-16:00, closed every Monday Website:　www.stcmm.org     Shanghai TCM Museum, the museum of the profound TCM and TCM culture, was opened in the new campus of Shanghai TCM University in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New Area in October 2004. The museum consists of three parts: the Medical History Museum of Shanghai TCM University/ Chinese Medical Association, the Specimen Room of Chinese Herbal Medicine and the History Museum of School. The earliest and currently the largest TCM history museum in China founded in July 1938 covers more than 14,000 TCM from the Stone Age to contemporary time and offers an insight into the historical facts and major achievements of TCM development in the last 5,000 years. In addition, as the educational base of All-China and Shanghai Municipal Science Popularization, the Museum plays an important role in understanding TCM history, publicizing TCM knowledge and promoting international medical exchange. The Specimen Room of Chinese herbal medicine, founded in 1958, covers more than 3,000 items of Chinese herbal medicine and prepared herbal products to illustrate the form and function of Chinese herbal medicine and disseminate the relevant knowledge. The Exhibition Room of the University History, founded in 2004, covers more than 700 items involving pictures and objects. It shows the development process of the Shanghai TCM University since its foundation in 1958.     Shanghai History Museum Add:　1 Century Avenue, Pudong Tel:　+86 21 58791888 Public transport:　Metro Line 2 at Lujiazui Station     Shanghai History Museum is located on the first floor of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower with an exhibition area of 10,000 square meters. The museum adopts the display with “real objects in the scenes” supplemented with high-tech methods, combining cultural relics, stage properties, models, sound and light into one. The museum consists of 7 parts: The Origin of Huating (ancient Shanghai ); Features of the Urban City; Glimpses of the Open Port; a 10-mile Street of Foreign Flavor; Old Traces on the Sea; an Exhibition of Architecture; and Good Times of Csrs and Carriages. The exhibition demonstrates to visitors the folk customs and habits of old Shanghai citizens.     Shanghai Postal Museum Add:　250 North Suzhou Road Tel:　+86 21 63936666 Open time:　09:00-1600 Every Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday Public transport:　Sightseeing Bus 10     On 1 January, 2006, the rebuilt Shanghai postal building opened to the public. The Shanghai Postal Museum , the first postal museum in China is in this building. With a space of 8000 square meters, there is the duplicated horse-drawn carriage used in 1909, the truck model used in 1917. All these relics reappear the postal development and changes. In the museum there is also a postage stamp hall, with stamps of the only existing copy, also precious stamps and designs.     The Museum of Natural Sciences Add:　No. 260 Yan'an Rd.(E) Shanghai Tel:　+86 21 63213548 Visiting Hours:　9:00-17:00 Box office open:　9:00--15:30 ; Closed on Monday Public transport:　Metro Line 2 at Nanjing Rd.(E) Station     The Museum of Natural Sciences under the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (the former body is Shanghai Museum of Natural History) was established in 1956. It moved to the current site at No. 260 Yan'an Rd.(E) in 1958. Guo Moruo, former president of Chinese Academy of Sciences, made superscription for it. Tan Jiazhen, an academician has served as the curator of the museum. The museum has 3000 pieces of rare animals specimen in its 3000 square meters exhibiting halls, covering all the species. It is one of the biggest nature sciences museums of the country. There are halls for dinosaurs, paleontology history, palaeoanthropology history, ancient carcass, invertebrate, fish, amphibious animal, reptile, bird, mammal, public science education and gift shops. With specimen as the convincing evidence, the museum aims to reveal the origin of the nature and its evolving rules, in an effort to popularize science knowledge.     Shanghai Railway Museum Add:　200 Tianmu Rd.(E) Shanghai Tel:　+86 21 51221130, 51221575 Visiting Hours:　9:00 – 16:00 on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday     The railway is an important milestone during the evolution of the human civilization. Karl Marx once referred to it as the pioneer of modern industry. The railway in China, formally started itself from Wu Song Railway in 1876, has gone through an uneasy period in the old China. After the People's Republic of China has been founded, the railway is again controlled by the people. Since then, the new railway system has begun to develop itself quickly and healthily. Based on the historical materials and objects as reference, the Railway Museum has demonstrated the development of the railway in Shanghai and East China during the past 100 and more years. By describing the past and present situation of the railway, the museum intends to let people know and be familiar with the railway, obtain some knowledge and concern about the railway.     Shanghai Geological Museum Add:　No.1 Huazhou Rd. Shanghai Visiting Hours:　8:30-17:00 The Shanghai Geological Museum is located in the Lingkong Agriculture Garden. It is only 15 minutes drive from Pudong International Airport. It used to be called “The Back Garden of   Pudong International Airport". Furthermore, the museum is one of the "Ten Municipal Projects for Popular Education in 2004". Established 10 years ago, the Museum has an area of 3,800 square meters. There is also a "Theme Park” in the garden. A lot of wonderful mineral crystals, such as Calcite crystal, Quarts crystal and Fluorite crystal collected in the museum are shared with the public. The red gypsum crystal comes from an ore hole which is over 600 meters underground and 5 years of explosion. The intergrowth ore of calite and green fluorite weight up to 1.5 tons. There is a huge wooden fossil tree discovered in Xinjiang, its intact trunks is 38 meters long and its girth is nearly 3.6 meters.     China Dairy Museum Add:　467 Wanrong Road Tel:　+86 21 56658452 Admission:　free Visiting Hours:　9:00-16:30 Public transport:　Metro line 1, Bus line 40, 46, 741, 253, 95 Website:　www.dmchina.net     (currently closed because of snow disaster in Feb. 2008. Please check its website regarding its time of reopening) The plan to build China Dairy Museum was presented by China Dairy Industry Association and China Dairy Cattle Association in 2000 and was invested by Bright Diary & Food. Opened In November 2001, the China Dairy Museum covers three big exhibition zones in the space of 1,000 square meters showing the development information of China dairy in each historical eras. As one of the key municipal projects, the museum was enlarged with another 300 square meters, and the original area was also renovated. It will play a greater role in showing dairy culture. With the hi-tech, the Bright Diary & Food annotates a new concept of the dairy products.     C.Y. Tung Maritime Museu Add:　1954 Huashan Rd. Shanghai Tel:　+86 21 62932403 Visiting Hours:　13:30-17:00 on Tuesday to Sunday     Located in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (established 1896), the C.Y. Tung Maritime Museum is jointly founded by Hong Kong's Tung Foundation and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The two-story, western-style building with a charming center courtyard was built ninety years ago. It was at one time the students' dormitory. The 600m 2 exhibition space houses the Chinese Maritime History Gallery and the C.Y. Tung Gallery. The former contains a permanent exhibition of maps, photographs, archival material, maritime trade routes and their artifacts, reflecting China's maritime history since the Neolithic Period. Through the permanent display of objects, photographs, archival material, and ship models, the C.Y. Tung Gallery attempts to portray the legendary life of C. Y. Yung, the one of the “Seven Sea Barons of the World”.     Shanghai Arts and Crafts Museum Add:　79 Fenyang Road Tel:　+86 21 64311431 Visiting Hours:　9:00-17:00     In the main building of the museum is the exhibition hall for folk arts, carvings and embroideries, composing 10 specialized workshops staffed with 50 professional artisans. The exhibits and collections in the museum and research institute are the masterpieces of modern and contemporary arts and crafts. There are shops in the museum and the research institute offering art works, arts and crafts and tourist souvenirs.     Shanghai Museum of Public Security Add:　518 South Ruijin Road Tel:　+86 21 64720256 Visiting Hours:　9:00am-4:00pm on Monday to Saturday Traffic:　Bus line 43, 89, ect. Website:　www.policemuseum.com.cn/en     Shanghai Museum of Public Security is the first one of this kind in China. It includes 9 exhibition halls with a collection of about 3000 pieces from the late Qing Dynasty till now. The exhibition hall of the history of public security has 1000 material objects recording the development history of the Shanghai Public Security since its establishment in 1854. There are also the prison exhibition, fire control exhibition, equipments exhibition and etc.     Huang Daopo Memorial Hall Add:　Dongwan Village, Huajing Town Tel:　+86 21 63963328 Visiting Hours:　9:00-16:00     The Memorial Hall is composed of 3 exhibition rooms. The main room is the display of photos, written text and household commodities that exhibit the life story of Huang Daopo and her contribution to China's textile industry. The other 2 rooms are the display of the changes in spinning and weaving tools, machines and cotton-made products of different periods.     Exhibition Hall of Shanghai Aerospace Add:　222 Caoxi Rd. Shanghai Tel:　+86 21 64820694 Located in Caohejing High-Tech Area, The Exhibition Hall of the Shanghai Aerospace Science and Technology is more than 1,000 square meters. It shows the 4 series products of   Shanghai Aerospace --- missile, spacecraft, satellite and launch vehicles, as well as the aerospace experts. By adopting real and high-tech ways, the exhibition hall reveals the mystery of SAST. The real HQ-61 missile, it was exhibited on the 50 anniversary military review of the Chinese National Day. The high-grade, precise and advanced industrial products are the first time exhibit. The CZ-4 launch vehicle, Shen Zhou spaceship, CK-1, FY-1 and FY-2 satellites are also exhibited. The demonstration of Shen Zhou spaceship's launching, the vivid field show of missile firing as well as the exciting programs are available on the exhibition. Through the demonstration and exhibition, the hall reveals the achievements of the Shanghai Aerospace, demonstrates the high-tech level of the Shanghai Aerospace.     Shanghai Entomological Museum Add:　300 Fenglin Road Tel:　+86 21 54924191 Visiting Hours:　9:00-17:00     Shanghai Entomological Museum is affiliated to the Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences. Shanghai Entomological Museum has collected more than one million insect specimens. Among the collections, there are a great number of animals on the brink of extinction and the insect specimens of quarantine. The museum is a large-scale professional entomological museum in China, and also is the only professional institution on insect specimens collection in East China.     Hand-printed Blue Nankeen Exhibition Hall Add:　No.24, Lane 637, Changle Road Tel:　+86 21 540379478 Visiting Hours:　9:00-17:00     Blue nankeen has long been the most popular hand-woven and hand-printed fabric favored by Chinese ordinary people. Although blue nankeen is not as luxuriant as silk fabric, its artistic achievement is never in the shade. Same as blue glazed porcelain of Song Dynasty, it also reflects deep cultural taste and artistic touch which features a sharp contrast of blue and white. People often find themselves engrossed in an involuntary admiration of its purity of traditional folk culture. A Japanese friend, Madam KU Bo MA SA, who has contributed a lot to Sino-Japan friendship for many years, collected many Blue Nankeen rarities scattered in ordinary hands in tens of years. With the help of the Shanghai Textile Imp. & Exp. Corporation, the China Hand-printed Blue Nankeen Exhibition Hall was open to the public.     Wulixiang - Shikumen Open House Add:　No.25, Lane181, Taicang Road Tel:　+86 21 33070337 Visiting Hours:　Sunday to Thursday: 10:30am-22:30pm; Friday to Saturday: 11:00am-23:00pm     Wulixing means “home” in Shanghai dialect. "Dao Wulixiang Lai Zuo Zuo" means coming to my house and sitting for a while. "Open House" in English refers to the custom of neighbours informally dropping in for a visit to one's home. "Open House" follows on in meaning from "Open Invitation". The "Wulixiang" museum at Shanghai Xintiandi presents an authentic recreation of a typical Shikumen house built in the 1920's, it offers a place to cherish the old Shanghai and recall the past events.     Shanghai Astronomy Museum Add:　on top of the Sheshan hill Tel:　+86 21 64696271 Open time:　08:15-16:30 Public transport:　Shang-She Bus Line     Built in 2004, the museum has a floor space of 2000 square meters. There are astronomical instruments and other equipments, time and humen hall, science and tech hall, astronomy exchanging hall and meridian instrument room.     Shanghai Animation and Comics Museum Open time:　10:00 – 17:00 (Closed on Monday) Public transport:　Take Metro Line 2 and get off at Zhangjiang High Technology Park Station, and take bus 609 or DongChuan Line to Tuanjie Station.     Shanghai Animation and Comics Museum covers an area of 7,000 square meters. It shows the origin, classification, forms and production of animation through high-tech bio-animation ways of presentation and aims to becoming an after-school classroom of animation for students, teachers and enthusiasts. The museum is divided into three floors, including the comic hall, animation hall, an interactive hall and multi-function 3D cinema, etc.     China Maritime Museum Add:　197 Shen’gang Avenue, Lin’gang New Town, Pudong New Area Tel:　+86 21 68283691 Open time:　9:30 – 16:30 (Closed on Monday, Except on National Holidays) Website:　www.mmc.gov.cn     Located at the Dishui Lake in Lin’gang New Town, Pudong New Area, China Maritime Museum covers an area of 24,830 square meters. It is the first maritime museum of China, displaying the country's maritime culture, history and technology. The museum showcases 20,000 exhibited items in six categories, including history, ships, ports, maritime safety, mariner and military navigation.     China Art Palace Add:　161 Shangnan Road, Shanghai Pudong New Area Tel:　+86 4009219021 Website:　artshow.eastday.com Admission:　Free (Advance reservation online is required.) Hours:　9:00-17:00 (Admission is not allowed after 16:00) Getting there: 　Metro Line 8 at China Art Museum Station   　　Housed in the China Pavilion of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, China Art Palace features 27 exhibition halls measuring 64,000 square meters in area as well as such facilities as theater, conference hall and library. The 559-square-meter dining zone offers coffee, Western fast food and tea. 　　Displaying the collections of art from state-owned art organizations on a permanent basis, China Art Palace sheds light on the origin and evolution of Chinese contemporary and modern art. At the same time, by working with the fine arts community of China, it collects and displays the works of art of China’s highest artistic creation, and also by working with the world’s famous art museums, displays the contemporary and modern art treasures from other countries. 　　China Art Palace is a massive fine arts museum for collection, display, exchanges, research and education. Here, visitors will be taken onto an eye-opening tour of the finest art creations by Chinese artists around the world.     Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art Add:　200 Huayuangang Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai Tel:　+86 4009219021 Website:　artshow.eastday.com Admission:　Free (Advance reservation online is required.) Hours:　9:00 - 17:00 (Admission is not allowed after 16:00; closed on Monday) Getting there:　Metro lines 4 and 8 at South Xizang Road Station   　 　Housed in the Urban Future Pavilion of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art is the first public museum of contemporary art in mainland China and a typical urban cultural venue for art exhibition, collection, research, exchanges, and experiential education. 　　Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, which offers a total construction area of 41,000 square meters, features 12 exhibition halls of different sizes that make for exhibitions of different nature as well as such facilities as library, research rooms and lecture halls. It is an ideal place for international exchanges in visual art and display of excellent contemporary works of art from China and other countries. 　　Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art displays creations from various fields like contemporary art, literature and film and thus provides a cross-media, cross-disciplinary art platform for exchanges. It also puts together the excellent works of art from China and other countries to expand the cultural horizons of the public, make teenagers more innovation-conscious and inject new vitality into the cultural creative industry. The venue will lay the groundwork for Shanghai’s ambition to become one of the centers of China and even the world for art dissemination, display, exchanges and cooperation.