Shanghai Museum of TCM
Add: 1200 Cailun Rd. Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New Area
Tel: +86 21 51322710, 51322712
Public transport: Zhangnan Bus Line, Tangchuan Bus Line, Daqiao 5 Bus Line, Daqiao 6 Bus Line, Metro Line 2 at Zhangjiang Station
Visiting hours: 9:00-16:00, closed every Monday
Website: www.stcmm.org
Shanghai TCM Museum, the museum of the profound TCM and TCM culture, was opened in the new campus of Shanghai TCM University in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong New Area in October 2004.
The museum consists of three parts: the Medical History Museum of Shanghai TCM University/ Chinese Medical Association, the Specimen Room of Chinese Herbal Medicine and the History Museum of School. The earliest and currently the largest TCM history museum in China founded in July 1938 covers more than 14,000 TCM from the Stone Age to contemporary time and offers an insight into the historical facts and major achievements of TCM development in the last 5,000 years.
In addition, as the educational base of All-China and Shanghai Municipal Science Popularization, the Museum plays an important role in understanding TCM history, publicizing TCM knowledge and promoting international medical exchange. The Specimen Room of Chinese herbal medicine, founded in 1958, covers more than 3,000 items of Chinese herbal medicine and prepared herbal products to illustrate the form and function of Chinese herbal medicine and disseminate the relevant knowledge. The Exhibition Room of the University History, founded in 2004, covers more than 700 items involving pictures and objects. It shows the development process of the Shanghai TCM University since its foundation in 1958.
Shanghai History Museum
Add: 1 Century Avenue, Pudong
Tel: +86 21 58791888
Public transport: Metro Line 2 at Lujiazui Station
Shanghai History Museum is located on the first floor of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower with an exhibition area of 10,000 square meters. The museum adopts the display with “real objects in the scenes” supplemented with high-tech methods, combining cultural relics, stage properties, models, sound and light into one. The museum consists of 7 parts: The Origin of Huating (ancient Shanghai ); Features of the Urban City; Glimpses of the Open Port; a 10-mile Street of Foreign Flavor; Old Traces on the Sea; an Exhibition of Architecture; and Good Times of Csrs and Carriages. The exhibition demonstrates to visitors the folk customs and habits of old Shanghai citizens.
Shanghai Postal Museum
Add: 250 North Suzhou Road
Tel: +86 21 63936666
Open time: 09:00-1600 Every Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday
Public transport: Sightseeing Bus 10
On 1 January, 2006, the rebuilt Shanghai postal building opened to the public. The Shanghai Postal Museum , the first postal museum in China is in this building. With a space of 8000 square meters, there is the duplicated horse-drawn carriage used in 1909, the truck model used in 1917. All these relics reappear the postal development and changes.
In the museum there is also a postage stamp hall, with stamps of the only existing copy, also precious stamps and designs.