The bustling People's Square is one of the busiest areas in Shanghai, where there is an "unknown" English bell tower building. Its life experience is a legend. Its predecessor was the famous Jockey Club Building in Shanghai. After six years of repair and maintenance, it will be opened to the public free of charge as the Shanghai History Museum.
Opening hours: 2065438+officially opened on March 27th, 2008.
Address: No.325 Nanjing West Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai
Tickets: free, you need valid documents to get tickets.
Digging deep into history, architecture itself is the best exhibit. The Happy Valley Club Building in Shanghai was designed by the British company 1926. At that time, the Horse Racing Club cost 2 million taels of silver and was built in 1933. The bell tower is mainly used as a senior club. 1989 is listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Shanghai.
The bell tower is about 53.3 meters high and its appearance is classical and eclectic. Look carefully again, between the top of the top floor and the bell tower is the Observatory, which is a triangular sloping roof. The four sides of the bell tower are inlaid with a round clock with a diameter of more than 3 meters, and the numbers on it are Roman.
Not only does the appearance of the bell tower reproduce the architectural essence of 1933, but even the small details inside reproduce the appearance of that year. It is said that the patterns, materials and techniques should be restored to the original state.
There are more than 1000 pieces of cultural relics on display here, 80% of which are exhibited for the first time. The "gold content" is extremely high, and the exhibition area reaches 9800_. Total * * * is divided into four floors, preface hall, ancient Shanghai and modern Shanghai, which can be visited in almost one afternoon!
As soon as you enter the History Museum, you can see a huge intelligent touch screen wall, which contains the history of various periods, and it is particularly detailed ~ The preface hall is relatively empty, and there is a big screen that will play the movie A Brief History of Shanghai for 6 minutes.
The only pair of bronze lions in the world.
There are two bronze lions in the preface hall, which were designed by British artist Henry Puller. They were placed in front of the Bund HSBC in the last century. There is only one pair in the world, both in Shanghai History Museum.
Wuhuahao Bai Zi Dali Bridge
Golden luxury sedan chair, using Zhu Jin lacquer wood carving, glass painting, color embroidery and other traditional China techniques, takes 10 year and 10000 year. Now it is very precious because it is often extinct.
The second floor is about the exhibition of cultural relics in ancient Shanghai, including Majiabang culture, Songze culture and Liangzhu culture. Every ancient cultural relic here will be introduced in detail, telling you that Shanghai also had splendid culture in ancient times ~
The 3rd and 4th floors of Shanghai History Museum devoted a lot of space to introducing the development of modern Shanghai, from the wars that took place in this land to the rapid progress of economy and culture.
The theater of the big world has also been "moved here", but it is only a miniature grand theater. The curtain was opened regularly and turned back to the music popular in old Shanghai at that time. It may be Shanghai Opera or Pingtan. There are also machines that can listen to the school songs of major universities in Shanghai. The names are all old names. For example, Shanghai University of Science and Technology shows Hujiang University.
Other exhibits/kloc-more than 0/000, you can find them yourself.
Traffic guide:
1/Line 2 People's Square Station 1 1 Exit, walk about 300 meters.