Shanghai Entomological Museum
Add: 300 Fenglin Road
Tel: +86 21 54924191
Visiting Hours: 9:00-17:00
Shanghai Entomological Museum is affiliated to the Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences.
Shanghai Entomological Museum has collected more than one million insect specimens. Among the collections, there are a great number of animals on the brink of extinction and the insect specimens of quarantine. The museum is a large-scale professional entomological museum in China, and also is the only professional institution on insect specimens collection in East China.
Hand-printed Blue Nankeen Exhibition Hall
Add: No.24, Lane 637, Changle Road
Tel: +86 21 540379478
Visiting Hours: 9:00-17:00
Blue nankeen has long been the most popular hand-woven and hand-printed fabric favored by Chinese ordinary people. Although blue nankeen is not as luxuriant as silk fabric, its artistic achievement is never in the shade. Same as blue glazed porcelain of Song Dynasty, it also reflects deep cultural taste and artistic touch which features a sharp contrast of blue and white. People often find themselves engrossed in an involuntary admiration of its purity of traditional folk culture.
A Japanese friend, Madam KU Bo MA SA, who has contributed a lot to Sino-Japan friendship for many years, collected many Blue Nankeen rarities scattered in ordinary hands in tens of years. With the help of the Shanghai Textile Imp. & Exp. Corporation, the China Hand-printed Blue Nankeen Exhibition Hall was open to the public.
Wulixiang - Shikumen Open House
Add: No.25, Lane181, Taicang Road
Tel: +86 21 33070337
Visiting Hours: Sunday to Thursday: 10:30am-22:30pm; Friday to Saturday: 11:00am-23:00pm
Wulixing means “home” in Shanghai dialect. "Dao Wulixiang Lai Zuo Zuo" means coming to my house and sitting for a while. "Open House" in English refers to the custom of neighbours informally dropping in for a visit to one's home. "Open House" follows on in meaning from "Open Invitation".
The "Wulixiang" museum at Shanghai Xintiandi presents an authentic recreation of a typical Shikumen house built in the 1920's, it offers a place to cherish the old Shanghai and recall the past events.
Shanghai Astronomy Museum
Add: on top of the Sheshan hill
Tel: +86 21 64696271
Open time: 08:15-16:30
Public transport: Shang-She Bus Line
Built in 2004, the museum has a floor space of 2000 square meters. There are astronomical instruments and other equipments, time and humen hall, science and tech hall, astronomy exchanging hall and meridian instrument room.
Shanghai Animation and Comics Museum
Open time: 10:00 – 17:00 (Closed on Monday)
Public transport: Take Metro Line 2 and get off at Zhangjiang High Technology Park Station, and take bus 609 or DongChuan Line to Tuanjie Station.
Shanghai Animation and Comics Museum covers an area of 7,000 square meters. It shows the origin, classification, forms and production of animation through high-tech bio-animation ways of presentation and aims to becoming an after-school classroom of animation for students, teachers and enthusiasts. The museum is divided into three floors, including the comic hall, animation hall, an interactive hall and multi-function 3D cinema, etc.