Shanghai Shikumen Museum

Old style Shanghainese real life items and home furnishings, you can visit close, full of life atmosphere

Shanghai Shikumen Museum

Shanghai Shikumen Museum, located at No.25, Lane 181, Taicang Road, Shanghai, is an old Shikumen house built in the 1920s. The exhibition hall covers an area of 367.2 square meters, with a building area of 513.9 square meters. The story of a Shikumen family runs through the whole visit.

Haishikumen museum displays the unique architectural culture of Shikumen in Shanghai and reproduces the living space and lifestyle of Shanghai people in those years.

Development history

All the objects on display in the exhibition room of Shanghai Shikumen Museum, whether they are stoves, children's textbooks, lipsticks or ashtrays, are old objects left in the Shikumen alley in the 1920s and 1930s. Sitting in front of the dressing table of the master room on the second floor, playing with the exquisite "baiqueling" rouge and the green jade hairpin, and the gramophone beside is playing light jazz music, it seems that you can see a middle-class modern woman in the 1930s who stresses details and knows how to enjoy life.

Through the multi-media, audio effects and projectors distributed in the exhibition sites, you can hear the life of the middle class in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. No matter which room you enter, the vivid image seems to restore the history and let you experience the life of the owner of this room. Strolling in it can be described as limited space and infinite leisure, which makes you experience the complex of lane hall personally.

"Wulixiang" of Shikumen museum is a typical Shanghai dialect, which means "home". "Come and sit in the room" means to come to my house. "Open house" in English means "the habit of neighbors coming to their homes". It follows the form of "open invitation" and is called "open house".

"Inside the room" is a warm word for every Shanghainese. More than 70 percent of Shanghainese were born and raised in Shikumen houses. Nowadays, with the disappearance of Shikumen, Shanghainese living in commercial houses will no longer queue up for public kitchens and toilets as they used to, nor will they stand on the balcony and hang clothes while chatting with their neighbors as they used to. As for the women in Zhang Ailing's and Su Qing's works who wear tight cheongsam and American silk stockings and buy imported Rouge pollen from the basket hanging from the window, they have already turned into an old dream, which can only be seen in nostalgic movies.

Today, the exhibition hall of the "house and cabin" of Shikumen in Xintiandi gives us a good place to cherish the memory of old Shanghai and pursue historical memories.

architectural composition

Shanghai Shikumen museum is an old Shikumen house built in 1920s. The whole exhibition hall covers an area of 367.2 square meters, with a building area of 513.9 square meters. It was built according to the pattern of one household in lane unit in the 1920s. There are seven main exhibition rooms, including the guest room, study room, old man's room, master's room, daughter's room, son's room and kitchen shack. The story of a Shikumen family runs through the whole visit.

Collection

In the 1930s, Shikumen house was a unique residence in Shanghai, where most residents lived. Hotels, workshops and newspapers all come to occupy a place in the alleys extending in all directions. Snack stalls, shoemakers, hairdressers, fortune tellers, and all kinds of open-air professionals who pass streets and alleys all come here to make a living. Most of them are immigrants from all over the world. At the entrance of Shikumen lane, there is a small shop called "cigarette paper shop" in Shanghai, which provides cigarettes, straw paper, old wine and various small department stores for 24-hour business. All kinds of characters and trades vividly show the city of Shanghai, which is the most romantic and touching part of the city. At the same time, it also reflects the social characteristics of the city of Shanghai, that is, "the sea embraces all rivers" and "tolerance is greatness".

The pavilion of Shikumen museum is a small room located at the corner of the stairs of Shikumen building, usually facing north. Because it is cold in winter and hot in summer, and the room area is small, it is often rented by the owner to increase revenue.

2、 In the 1930s, many progressive people in the literary and art circles, in order to escape the white terror of the mainland, came to Shanghai one after another to find a new life and often rented pavilions. Most of these literati are single men without family members. They study hard, conceive and write in this humble room, and carry out various artistic creation activities. Many famous writers such as Lu Xun, Cai Yuanpei, Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Ding Ling and Feng Zikai have lived in the pavilion. These literati not only lived in pavilions, but also involved in the life of pavilions and Shikumen in their works, so they are called "pavilions literature". And Zhang Ailing's novels often take lane as the background of the story.

Visit information

Address: No.25, Lane 181, Taicang Road, Shanghai

Opening hours: Sunday to Thursday: 10:30-22:30; Friday to Saturday: 11:00-23:00

Address: No. 25, new world Tianli Road, 181 lane, Taicang Road, Luwan District (near Ma Dang Road)

Longitude: 121.475143262

Latitude: 31.229830248198

Tel: 021-33070337

Ticket information: per capita: 20 / person

Opening hours: 10:30-22:30 from Sunday to Thursday;

Friday Saturday 11:00-23:00