Shanghai History Museum
Museo de Historia de Shanghái
Shanghai History Museum (1st Floor of Oriental Pearl TV Tower, 1 Century Ave, Pudong, Shanghai) — this is a museum showing the historical developments of Shanghai, with about 18,000 objects, including more than 1,300 historical relics. There visitors can have a whistle-stop tour Shanghai’s past via an array of old artifacts and waxwork figures. Visitors can clamber into the mock street, shop, and bar scenes for taking photos. The museum displays covered Shanghai civilization for over 6,000 years, including Ma Jia Bing Culture, Songze Culture and Liangzhu Culture. It also reflected local history from the First Opium War in 1840, when Shanghai was forced to operate as a treaty port and then the foreign concessions become a key part of Shanghai’s history and later liberation.
Admission: RMB 35 per person. Hours: 9:00 am – 5:30 pm.