Jiangnan Shipyard Museum

　　The Jiangnan Shipyard Museum is a microcosm of China's modern and contemporary scientific and technological history, as well as its industrial history. Situated on the second and third floors of the Jiangnan Shipyard Building at 600 Luban Road, Luwan District, Shanghai, near the Lupu Bridge, it was formerly the History Museum of the Jiangnan Shipyard. It serves as a Shanghai Patriotic Education Base and a Shanghai Science Education Base.

　　To vividly and intuitively showcase the power of technological development, the museum has designed over twenty ship models, an operational submarine command center diorama, an electric model of a ten-thousand-ton hydraulic press, photoelectric sand tables, and other audiovisual exhibits demonstrating advancements in various fields of science and technology, aiming to achieve effective educational outcomes. The exhibition layout also allows ample room for future enhancements.

　　Within the 1,800-square-meter Jiangnan Shipyard Museum, 459 historical photographs, 77 physical artifacts, and 21 ship models display representative products from different historical periods of "Jiangnan" since 1865, encompassing nearly all types of vessels in China: China's first submarine, the first ten-thousand-ton hydraulic press, the first cross-sea train ferry, the first independently designed and built ten-thousand-ton ship, the first liquefied petroleum gas carrier, and the warship used by the Chinese Navy during its first global voyage; as well as the appearance of China's first motorized warship, first artillery piece, and first breech-loading rifle.

　　Established in 1865, the Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau was the birthplace of China’s modern industry, the cradle of China’s industrial workforce, and a key military-industrial stronghold in resisting imperialist aggression. At the same time, Jiangnan was also an early experimental ground for China’s opening-up, learning, and dissemination of Western science and technology.

　　Today, at the original Jiangnan site, 11 historical buildings and sites remain that bear witness to the development of China’s industrial civilization, including the former site of the Translation Office, the former site of the Shipyard Dock, aircraft hangars, offices from the Japanese occupation period, and the former site of the Navy Headquarters.

　　The Jiangnan Shipyard Museum is divided into five exhibition areas: the History Hall, Civilian Ships Hall, Military Ships Hall, Heavy Industry Hall, and Jiangnan Changxing Hall. Among them, the Heavy Industry Hall features steel structure products built by Jiangnan Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., a listed company under the Jiangnan Shipyard Group. These include landmark structures such as the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Shanghai Grand Theater, National Centre for the Performing Arts, as well as magnetic levitation train tracks and the world’s largest steel arch bridge—the Lupu Bridge—demonstrating Jiangnan’s contributions to Shanghai’s and the nation’s key projects and reflecting the enterprise’s competitiveness in non-ship product markets.