China Tobacco Museum

China Tobacco Museum is a professional museum approved by the state and jointly funded by the national tobacco industry. It is located at the intersection of Changyang Road and Tongbei road in Yangpu District, Shanghai, across the road from Shanghai cigarette factory, with a total construction area of 9617 square meters and a total office space of There are seven pavilions including "tobacco development history", "tobacco agriculture", "tobacco industry", "tobacco economy and trade", "tobacco management", "smoking and tobacco control" and "tobacco culture". Our collection is rich and colorful, with high collection and research value.

The exhibition hall of China Tobacco Museum is divided into seven pavilions and one literature museum, including the history of tobacco development, tobacco agriculture, tobacco industry, tobacco trade, tobacco management, tobacco culture, smoking and tobacco control. In addition, there are lecture hall, mobile exhibition hall, large storehouse, information database, guide system, tea room and cigarette bar for visitors.

China Tobacco Museum is not only a treasure house of Chinese tobacco knowledge, but also an excellent place for tourism, sightseeing and leisure.

China Tobacco Museum, Shanghai

synonym

China Tobacco Museum generally refers to Shanghai China Tobacco Museum

China Tobacco Museum is a professional museum approved by the state and funded by the national tobacco industry. It is located at the intersection of Changyang Road and Tongbei Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, across the road from Shanghai cigarette factory.

Development history

China Tobacco Museum is located at the intersection of Changyang Road and Tongbei Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, across the road from Shanghai cigarette factory. It is a professional museum for collecting, displaying and researching Chinese tobacco.

The exhibition hall of China Tobacco Museum is divided into seven pavilions and one literature museum, including the history of tobacco development, tobacco agriculture, tobacco industry, tobacco trade, tobacco management, tobacco culture, smoking and tobacco control. In addition, there are lecture hall, mobile exhibition hall, large storehouse, information database, guide system, tea room and cigarette bar for visitors.

architectural composition

Based on the design concept of large-scale merchant ships and Mayan temples, the China Tobacco Museum forms an external structure about 80 meters long, 25 meters wide and 30 meters high. The center of the museum's outer wall is inlaid with a 140 meter long and 4.1-meter-high granite relief with the theme of "record of smoke and cloud".

Standing in front of the museum are five large totem pillars with a diameter of 0.85 meters and an average height of 9 meters. They are engraved with mascots of dragon, Phoenix, lion, crane and horse, forming expressive features. In addition, the China Tobacco Museum also has a large library covering an area of 600 square meters, a multi-functional lecture hall that can accommodate more than 150 people, as well as a tea room and a cigarette bar for visitors' leisure. The exquisite architectural language and the architectural symbols full of life tension provide people with endless space for reverie. When you are in it, you seem to appreciate a magnificent work of art.

Tobacco has been rooted in China for more than 400 years, integrated into social life, and combined with Chinese traditional culture to form a profound tobacco culture. Through precious cultural relics, documents, models, scenes, real wax figures, photos and multimedia, the museum vividly displays the history of Chinese tobacco culture and interprets the rich connotation of tobacco culture.

What's most interesting is that in the exhibition areas of "celebrities and tobacco", "ancient and modern tobacco customs and national tobacco customs", as well as various kinds of cigarette sets, cigarette labels and pictures, you can see the ashtray used by Mao Zedong; the dry tobacco bag used by Yang Jingyu; the water tobacco bag in Ming and Qing Dynasties and the rare cigarette label "coming and going" specially designed for drifting to Jinpeng Mazu Taiwan, which make you enter a colorful art world.

Walking into the Tobacco Agriculture Museum, when you wander around the Hakka Tulou with changeable lights, approach the stilted building full of Dai Flavor, and carefully appreciate the cultural relics and documents reflecting the development of tobacco agriculture, you will surely feel the rustic and strong rural feelings from China's tobacco producing areas. As an exhibition with the development history of tobacco agriculture as the theme, the Agriculture Museum clearly reflects the introduction and spread of Chinese tobacco planting, the development and changes of cultivation and modulation, and the significant changes in the development of Chinese tobacco agriculture under the monopoly system It reflects the major events and representatives in the development process of China's tobacco agriculture, as well as the achievements of China's tobacco in agricultural science and technology and Sino foreign cooperation.

In terms of display methods, the Agricultural Museum combines light, color, sound, shape (specimen) and scenery by means of classified display, systematic display and landscape display, so as to form a unique display language of the museum and highlight the main content. This kind of display form, which is ideological, contemporary, artistic and ornamental, is undoubtedly an attempt of China Tobacco Museum in exhibition arrangement.

Visit information

Address: 728 Changyang Road (near Tongbei Road)

Address: no.728, Changyang Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai

Longitude: 121.5184016998

Latitude: 31.261820046015

Tel: 021-65359966

Official website: http://www.tobacco.gov.cn

Traffic information: Changyang Road, Xuchang Road, no.22-33, Shenchuan special line

Opening hours: 9:00 a.m. - 16:00 p.m. every Tuesday / Thursday / Saturday