Old Shanghai Museum

Old Shanghai Museum

The old Shanghai Museum, designed by the famous architect Dong Dayou, started construction in 1934 and opened in 1936.

architectural composition

The old Shanghai Museum is 24 meters high with a building area of 1900 square meters. It looks like the drum tower in Beijing, with double eaves and glazed tile roof. The platform around it is surrounded by imitation stone watchposts and fences. The facade is built with artificial stones. It is a model of the combination of traditional Chinese style and modern style. The old Shanghai Museum, the old Shanghai Library and Jiangwan gymnasium were regarded as "the best in the Far East". In particular, the museum and library imitating the Drum Tower of Chinese architecture can be called the twin constellations in the history of modern architecture.

Development history

The construction started in 1934, adopting Dong Dayou's Chinese and Western design, and was undertaken by Zhang Yutai's Heji factory. The old Shanghai Museum and the old Shanghai library are another major architectural plan in the "Greater Shanghai plan".

It was completed in February 1936 and officially opened to the outside world. It was the first exhibition of China Architecture Exhibition, with more than 40000 visitors.

On February 18, 1994, Shanghai Municipal People's government announced that it was "Shanghai excellent modern architecture".

In 1999, Changhai Hospital spent nearly 20 million yuan to renovate the interior and exterior walls of building 10 "imaging building".

Address: Changhai Hospital, 174 Changhai Road

Longitude: 121.498256

Latitude: 31.250316