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Founded and first open in 1952, Shanghai Museum possesses today a collection of 120,000 precious works of art. Its rich and high-quality collection of ancient Chinese bronze, ceramics, painting and calligraphy is specially celebrated in the world. The 29.5 meters high building has a construction space of 39,200 square meters. Its unique architectural form of a round top with a square base, symbolizing the ancient Chinese philosophy that the square earth is under the round sky, is a distinguished architectural combination of traditional feature and modern spirit. The Museum has eleven galleries and three special temporary exhibition halls.
Shanghai Museum: No 201 People's Avenue, People's Square - (86-21) 9696.8686 |
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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 History Museum: No 1 Century Avenue, Pudong - (86-21) 5879.1888 |
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Located on People's Square, the Exhibition Hall is a six-story building, with two basement levels, which displays Shanghai's urban planning and development. Exhibitions include models of planned and recent developments, as well as Shanghai's history. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a huge scale model of the city of Shanghai, showing all existing and approved buildings. Visitors can view the model at "ground level", or ascend a gallery running around it for views from above. The model is intended to represent the entire city, including all planned developments.
Urban Plan Exhibition Center: No 100 People's Avenue, People's Square - (86-21) 6318.4477 |
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This gorgeous three-story late French Renaissance mansion was built in 1905 for the French Concession's Chamber of Industry director. The mansion's expansive lawns, sweeping marble staircases, stained-glass windows, dark wooden paneling, and ceiling beams obviously appealed to many others as well, as it became the residence of Chen Yi, Shanghai's first mayor after 1949. After 1960, this became the Shanghai Arts and Crafts Research Center. On display are fine carvings in jade, wood, ivory, and bamboo, as well as gorgeously stitched costumes and tapestries, intricately painted vases and snuff bottles, and a variety of folk crafts from paper lanterns to dough figurines.
Arts and Crafts Museum: No 79 Fenyang Lu - (86-21) 6431.1431 |
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Located on the southeast end of Century Avenue beside Century Park, Shanghai Science & Technology Museum opened on December 2001 and covers a space of 65,500 square meters. With the theme of “Nature, Mankind, Technology”, 12 theme exhibition halls are opened to the public: Spectrum of Life, Earth Exploration, Cradle of Designers, Children's Science Land, Light of Wisdom, Home on Earth, Information Era, World of Robots, Light of Exploration, Human and Health, Space Navigation. Apart from the above-listed, there are Chinese Ancient Science & Technology Gallery, Explorers Gallery and Academicians Gallery.
Science and Technology Museum: No 2000 Century Avenue, Pudong - (86-21) 6862.2000 |
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Established in 1956, 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.
Museum of Natural Sciences: No 260 Yan'an Xi lu - (86-21) 6321.3548 |
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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. High-grade, precise and advanced industrial products are exhibited for the first time: The real HQ-61 missile, the CZ-4 launch vehicle, Shen Zhou spaceship, CK-1, FY-1 and FY-2 satellites. Through this exhibition the hall reveals the achievements and the high-tech level of the Shanghai Aerospace.
Aerospace Exhibition Hall: No 222 Caoxi lu - (86-21) 6482.0694 |
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The Navy Shanghai Museum consists of 3 exhibition halls: the Navy History, the Navy Equipment and the Marine Education, consisting of marine wonders and marine art. These 3 themes gather more than 10,000 items: pictures, ship and planes models, weaponsAll these vividly impress one with the sense of national territory, marine economy and marine culture.
Navy Shanghai Museum: No 68 Tanghou Lu, Wusong - (86-21) 5616.3295
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Madame Tussauds is a wax museum displaying replicas of well-known celebrities. It first opened in London in 1884 and has today 6 branches all over the world. Madame Tussaud Shanghai displays foreign celebrities such as Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, David Beckham, Tom Cruise, and great historical figures like Albert Einstein. The 9,600 square meters display also includes a collection of contemporary Chinese figures such as the state's first cosmonaut Yang Liwei, Nobel Prize winner Yang Zhengning, Olympic champion Liu Xiang and popular stars like Yao Ming, Andy Lau and Jackie Chan.
Madame Tussauds: 10/F No 2-26 Nanjing Dong lu, New WorldStore- (86-21) 6358.7878
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The garden was first established in 1559 as a private garden created by Pan Yunduan, who spent almost 20 years building a garden to please his father Pan En, a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, during his father's old age. Today, Yu Garden occupies an area of 2 hectares (5 acres), and is divided into six general areas laid out in the Suzhou style: the Grand Rockery (huangshi stone, featuring peaks, cliffs, winding caves and gorges), the Heralding Spring Hall (Dianchun), the Inner Garden (rockeries, ponds, pavilions, and towers), the Jade Magnificence Hall (Yuhua), the Lotus Pool (with a zigzag bridge and mid-lake pavilion) and the Ten Thousand-Flower Tower (Wanhua). Garden areas are separated by "dragon walls" with undulating gray tiled ridges, each terminating in a dragon's head. A must see.
The Yu Garden: 218 Anren lu, North of Old Chinese City - (86-21) 6328.2465
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Located in Nanxiang Town, Jiading area, it's one of the oldest gardens in Shanghai and a well-known Chinese classic garden in China. The five main features of Guyi Garden are stretches of bamboo forest, winding brooks, ancient buildings, couplets written on scrolls and artistic pavements. Guyi Garden has all the components of classic Chinese gardens such as the pavilions, the ponds, the twisted brooks and the artistic shaded paths. Some valuable cultural relics such as the stone pillar inscribed with Buddhist scriptures from the Tang Dynasty and the pagoda built in the Song Dynasty are well preserved in the garden.
Guyi Garden: No 218 Huyi lu, Nanxiang town, Jiading - (86-21) 5912.2225
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With a history of more than 300 years, the Pond of the Drunken Bai is a classical garden in the style of Ming Dynasty. It is the oldest classical garden of Shanghai. Located in Songjiang Distict, the Pond of the Drunken Bai covers an area of 5 hectares. With a square pond in the center and pavilion and corridor around, the garden is well persevered and impresses visitors with its beautiful scenery. There are also a large number of previous historical materials and cultural heritage such as the stone inscription “Red Cliff” and “Nandehutu”.
Pond of the Drunken Bai: No 64 Renmin Nan lu, Songjiang - (86-21) 5781.4763
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Lu Xun Park, formerly Hongkou Park, is a municipal park in Hongkou District. In 1896, the Bureau of Construction of Shanghai International Settlement initiated the construction of a shooting field for international commercial groups. Following the style of the sports park in Glasgow and designed by a British garden designer, it was named Hongkou Amusement Park. In 1905, it was rebuilt as "Hongkou Sports Games Park and Shooting Field" and finally renamed "Hongkou Park" in 1922. The park is dedicated to Lu Xun, containing the Luxun Museum and Mausoleum with the last resting place of the famous Chinese writer.
Luxun Park: No 146 Jiangwan Dong lu, right behind the Hongkou Stadium
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Century Park is the largest park of the city of Shanghai. It is situated in Pudong New Area. The Shanghai Science and Technology Museum is located nearby. There's a big lake and a lot of grass space for the kids to play, which is lacking in most other parks. The park includes a concert stage, and visitors can hire tandem bicycles, cycling-cars and boats to travel through it. The park's landscaping combines British, Japanese, and Chinese gardening styles.
Century Park: No 1001 Jinxiu lu,Pudong - (86-21) 3876.0588
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Built in 1974 and covering an area of 81 hectares, it is the largest city botanical garden in the country. It grows over 3,000 kinds of plants. It consists of areas of the Evolution of Plants, Environmental Protection, Potted Landscape, Medicinal Herbs, Exhibition Green House, Orchids, Landscaping Demonstration and Hall of Plants. It is a comprehensive botanical garden for importing species for indigenous cultivation, scientific research, science popularization, education, sightseeing and production.
Botanical Garden: No 1111 Long Wu lu - (86-21) 5436.3369
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