Shanghai History Museum

　　The Shanghai History Museum is a comprehensive museum that reflects the local history of Shanghai. The planning for Shanghai's regional museums began in the 1950s with the Shanghai History and Construction Museum. In 1983, the "Shanghai Historical Relics Exhibition Hall" was established, and in July 1991, it was renamed to its current name.

　　In October 1994, the Shanghai History Museum reopened at 1286 Hongqiao Road, featuring the basic exhibition "The Historical Development of Modern Shanghai." The exhibition comprehensively displayed the urban landscape of Shanghai from its opening as a port in 1843 to 1949 over the span of more than a hundred years. This exhibition was rated by the National Cultural Heritage Administration as one of the first "Top Ten Exhibition Masterpieces" in the national cultural relics and museums system, but it closed in March 1999 due to the expiration of the lease. In May 2001, the "Shanghai Urban History Development Exhibition Hall," prepared by the Shanghai History Museum, opened to the public in the podium of the Oriental Pearl Radio & Television Tower. The exhibition hall is divided into five sections: "Huating Origins," "Old Town Scenes," "Port Opening Snapshots," "The International Settlement," and "Old Traces of Shanghai," using vivid and lifelike displays to reflect Shanghai's development into China's largest industrial and commercial metropolis, highlighting the evolution of Shanghai in politics, economy, culture, society, and daily life during the modern era.

　　In January 2003, the Shanghai History Museum was designated by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government as a "Shanghai Patriotic Education Base." In recent years, the Shanghai History Museum has hosted a large number of temporary and traveling exhibitions, such as "Sun Yat-sen and Shanghai – Exhibition of Cultural Relics, Documents, and Archives," "Modern Metropolis – Shanghai and Hong Kong Social Scenes," and "East Meets West – European Porcelain Exhibition," achieving very positive social responses and benefits. While promoting various exhibitions to the public, the Shanghai History Museum has also frequently held the public welfare lecture series "Experts Talk About Shanghai," promoting knowledge of Shanghai’s local history and museum collections, yielding favorable social outcomes.

　　The Shanghai History Museum houses a total collection of approximately 110,000 items, categorized into fifteen major types: paintings and calligraphy, metals, ceramics, crafts, badges, documents, printing materials, textiles, stone carvings, coins, photographs, paper-cuttings, stamps, records, and other miscellaneous items.

　　The Shanghai History Museum has long been committed to academic research and investigation on Shanghai's regional cultural relics and history, local customs, humanistic environment, urban transformation, museology, and more, publishing a large number of works. Since 2002, it has published the "Shanghai History Museum Journal." In 2007, the Shanghai History Museum became the leading committee unit of the Urban Museums Committee under the Chinese Museums Association. As a key member of the International Council of Museums Committee for Urban Museums (ICOM-CAMOC), the Shanghai History Museum actively engages in cooperation with urban museums both domestically and internationally, contributing to the advancement of urban museum development.

　　Address: No. 193, Hankou Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, China

　　Postal Code: 200002

　　Tel: 63232208

　　Fax: 63235303

　　Website: http://www.shmuseum.org

　　Visiting Address: Ground Floor, Oriental Pearl Radio & Television Tower, No. 1 Century Avenue, Pudong New Area

　　Postal Code: 200120

　　Tel: 58791888

　　Fax: 58796660

　　Opening Hours: 8:00–21:30

　　Public Transport: Buses 81, 774, Cai-Lu Special Line, 993, Lujiazui Loop, Lujiazui Tourism Loop, Metro Line 2 to Lujiazui Station