Inventory of Shanghai Minority Museum

In Shanghai, there are some relatively niche museums that quietly record and preserve the past for us. This time, we have brought you 10 good places to take photos for free (one sells for only 8 yuan, and the other nine are free). Take a good camera and mobile phone, and you can take big movies for free!

1. Shanghai Symphony Music Museum

2. Shanghai Arts and Crafts Museum

3. Shanghai Shanghai-Hong Kong Bank History Museum

4. Xia Yan's former residence

5. Caoying Study

6. Hengfu Style Exhibition Hall

7. Jianye Lane

8. Former Residence of the Egg King (Excerpts from The Paragraph)

9. Shanghai Old Camera Manufacturing Museum

10. Shanghai Brush and Ink Museum

Shanghai Symphony Music Museum, the sound of music in the garden houses!

Shanghai Symphony Music Museum

Geographical location: No. 3 Baoqing Road, Shanghai (near Middle Fuxing Road)

Public transportation: Metro Lines 1 and 7 Changshu Road Station

Reservation method: Free visit. For the protection of old buildings,"Real Estate Baoqing" makes an appointment for free visit. The museum only arranges 80 visitors every day, divided into morning and afternoon sessions.

Opening hours: Open to the public from Tuesday to Saturday, 9:30-16:30 (Admission stops at 16:00)

No. 3 Baoqing Road, Shanghai is an old garden house with a history of more than 90 years. It is located at the intersection of Huaihai Middle Road and Baoqing Road, a prime location among Shanghai's prime locations.

This famous private garden with its doors closed in the past has now become the Shanghai Symphony Music Museum, becoming the first music museum with the title of symphony in the country. Here, the buildings and gardens retain the historical texture. While understanding the development history of Shanghai's symphony music, visitors can also experience the unique charm of Shanghai's garden houses among bricks, stones, flowers and trees.

In the middle of the garden of the old bungalow is a large lawn. Around the lawn, century-old camphor trees are luxuriant and luxuriant. Deep in the garden, the flowers and plants are exquisitely and beautifully trimmed.

At present, most of the exhibits in the Shanghai Symphony Museum come from the collections of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Its basic display consists of three major sections: Le Zhihe combs the historical context of the development of Shanghai's symphony music; Le Zhihua focuses on introducing Chinese conductors, composers and representative works of symphony music; Le Zhizhuan popularizes symphony music knowledge to the public in an easy-to-understand way.

The interior of the bungalow has wooden floors, parquet tiles, colorful glass, shutters, and fireplaces. The overall interior decoration style is retro. It seems that every window and every wall are telling you stories.

The floor-to-ceiling shutters on the second floor of the old house, looking at these old objects, seems to have traveled back to old Shanghai.

Multiple multimedia tour guides allow visitors to understand the brief history of the development of Western symphony music and appreciate the charm of music.

Shanghai Arts and Crafts Museum, viewing folk art in Xiaobai Palace

Address: No. 79 Fenyang Road, Shanghai (Taiyuan Crossing)

Ticket price: 8 yuan/person

Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 9:00-16:30(Admission stops at 16:00)

Transportation Guide: Take Metro Lines 1 and 7 to Changshu Road Station, which takes about 15 minutes on foot; take Line 10 to South Shaanxi Road Station, which takes about 10 minutes on foot

Shanghai Museum of Arts and Crafts is located on Fenyang Road, Xuhui District, where there are many old houses in the recent historical concession period. The main building of the Museum of Arts and Crafts is very similar to the White House in the United States and is known as the "Little White House on Sea." This "Little White House" was built in 1905 and is a French Renaissance building.

The building's lines are smooth and natural. The semicircular balcony is matched with a spiral staircase. The Ionic double pillars on both sides are carved with various shapes. The ceiling is painted with embossed. The bright colors make it look lifelike under the sun.

The museum displays a variety of exquisite carving and embroidery works, as well as folk handicrafts such as paper-cutting and lanterns, which can subvert people's impression of Shanghai's craftsmanship. It is a museum hidden in the downtown area, wonderfully beautiful and can take portraits of Internet celebrities.

The museum has three floors. You can visit the second floor along the external stairs. The second floor displays various exquisite jade carvings, tooth carvings, wood carvings, lacquer carvings, inlays, inkstone carvings, bamboo carvings, porcelain carvings and other art. Jade carvings and ivory carvings are all exquisite and lifelike.

If you pay attention to the elegant decoration in the building during your visit, you will find that it is full of nostalgia.

The spiral staircase from the second floor leads to the third floor has a retro appearance and is very suitable for taking photos.

Then go to the third floor, where you can visit embroidery, costumes, knitting and other handicrafts. You can also see the craftsmen in the studio making various handicrafts on site.

Finally, we go down to the first floor, where there are folk handicrafts such as paper-cuts, lanterns, and paintings on display. There is also a handicraft store. If you like it, you can buy one.

Shanghai Shanghai-Hong Kong Bank History Museum

Address: No. 299 Middle Sichuan Road, Huangpu District (near Jiujiang Crossing)

Opening hours: Tuesdays/Thursdays/Saturdays;9:30-16:00

Tickets: Free, make an appointment to visit the "Shanghai-Hong Kong Bank History Exhibition Hall"(free commentary period for 14:30-15:30 people)

The Bank of East Asia Building is located at No. 299 Middle Sichuan Road. The East Asia Building where the Shanghai-Hong Kong Bank Historical Exhibition Hall is located was built in 1926 and is a high-rise building in the Art Deco style.

After renovation, the building will be opened on the first floor and mezzanine level to serve as the Shanghai-Hong Kong Bank Historical Exhibition Hall and will be open to the public free of charge.

The original narrow wooden staircase in the reserve space of the foyer has been transformed into a revolving staircase leading to the second floor, which can be seen when entering the door.

The lobby on the first floor is a large-span space with a clear height of 6 meters. The display in the hall adopts the form of a combination of free-standing display cabinets and display boards to maximize the display of the exquisite details of the historical building. The chandeliers and fans in the hall are all historical original.

The 24-meter-long marble counters, vaults, safe deposit box warehouses and other facilities in the lobby on the first floor of the building have been baptized for nearly a century, and have become a highlight of the exhibition hall.

The stairs lead directly to the second floor, and the view from the second floor is great.

In addition, the exhibition hall also displays many precious bills and objects from financial institutions in Shanghai and Hong Kong at different periods. It combines traditional display forms and multimedia technology to present a period of modern Shanghai and Hong Kong that is rich in historical connotation and unique interest to the audience. History of the development of Hong Kong banks.

Xiayan's former residence

Address: No. 178 Urumqi South Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai City

Opening hours: Open every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, and closed every Monday and Saturday. 09:00-16:30, admission will be closed from 16:00.

Tickets: Free,"Charming Equitable Recovery" reservation for a visit. Xia Yan's former residence and Caoying's study room can be entered with the same reservation number.

Xia Yan's former residence is located at No. 178 Urumqi South Road, Shanghai. Show your reservation QR code to the security guard and follow the trail. The buildings along the street are very modern.

This No. 2 Building, built in 1932, is a three-story British-style garden house with a brick and wood structure. It combines British architectural style and Spanish style elements.

Xia Yan lived here from 1949 to 1955. On the basis of maintaining the original main structure and layout of the building, through objects and photos, everyone can walk into, get to know, and remember Xia Yan.

Caoying Shufang

Address: No. 178 Urumqi South Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai City

Opening hours: Open every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, and closed every Monday and Saturday. 09:00-16:30, admission will be closed from 16:00

Tickets: Free,"Charming Equitable Recovery" reservation for a visit. Xia Yan's former residence and Caoying's study room can be entered with the same reservation number.

Born in 1923, Cao Ying is a famous translator of Russian literature. He spent 10 years translating The Complete Works of Tolstoy on his own.

In Caoying's study, with the themes of "Humanitarian Enlightenment","Bridge between China and Russia" and "The Way of Translation", the original books, original manuscripts, and study scenes translated by Caoying are displayed to the public.

Caoying's study room is adjacent to Xia Yan's old residence and can be visited at the same time.

Hengfu Style Exhibition Hall

Address: No. 62, Fuxing West Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai City

Opening hours: Open every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and closed every Monday and Sunday. 09:00-16:30, admission will be closed from 16:00.

Tickets: Free,"Charming Equitable Recovery" reservation for a visit.

The Spanish-style house located at No. 62 Fuxing West Road has now been transformed into a Hengfu Style Exhibition Hall, where the history, architecture and culture of the century-old Hengfu can be seen in a panoramic view.

The Hengfu Scenic Area was founded in the early 20th century and has profound historical and cultural heritage. Many of them have been developed and opened to the public, and some are under renovation and waiting to be met with the public.

jianyeli

Located at the junction of Yueyang Road on Jianguo West Road, it is the largest Linong-style Shikumen residential complex in Shanghai. It can be said to be a walking Shikumen Museum.

Qingshui red bricks and semicircular arch door openings form its distinctive architectural characteristics.

Built in 1930 and renovated in 2017, Jianye Lane is still what Shanghainese remember, with commercial streets and internal residences (Capella Hotel).

Former Residence of the Egg King (Excerpts from The Paragraph)

At No. 617 Yongjia Road, Shanghai, inside the high wall, there are two old houses built in 1906. The foreign style is so beautiful that it is impossible to associate them with the "Qing Dynasty". But this is the former residence of an official from the Second Level in the late Qing Dynasty and the "Egg King" during the Republic of China. It has a history of a century.

The former residence consists of two English-style houses, with the three-story building on the south side as the main building and the two-story building on the east side as the auxiliary building. The old building after a century of wind and frost is still very intact and exquisite.

The first store in Shanghai of the "Excerpts of the Paragraph" furniture store is opened in the former residence of the "Egg King", which can be said to be a museum of modern home furnishings.

These rooms with different styles retain the original flavor of the bungalow, and the modern home is integrated into the old house without any sense of inconsistency! It is undoubtedly the most beautiful furniture store in Shanghai!

There is also a unique QR code on the wall of each room. If you scan it, you will find that every product in the room is displayed in the Mini programs.

Shanghai Old Camera Manufacturing Museum, reminiscing about the past!

toPoint: Third Floor, No. 300 Anfu Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai City

Time: Museum: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday to Sunday 10:00-16:00; closed on Monday, Thursday, and national holidays (not weekends).

Price: Free

I believe that in the past, Chinese families all had a past with the seagull camera, and the years when the camera accompanied the family have never been forgotten.

Shanghai Old Camera Manufacturing Museum is located on Anfu Road, Shanghai, adjacent to the Shanghai Drama Art Center. The strong literary and artistic atmosphere of Anfu Road seems suitable for its existence here.

I was able to enter this time because I accidentally passed by. The entrance is really small, and the museum is not yet on the first floor. You have to walk to the third floor to reach the main entrance. As a result, I have passed Anfu Road many times, but I actually missed it every time.

The museum is free to visit. As soon as you walk into the Old Camera Manufacturing Museum, a huge photo of an old worker assembling a seagull camera appears in front of you.

Shanghai Old Camera Manufacturing Museum is divided into "Exhibition Area for Representative Works of 34 Camera Manufacturers after the Founding of China","Seagull Classic Products Exhibition Area","Seagull 4A-109 Dual-Lens Retroreflective Camera Moulds and Parts, Production Line Exhibition Area" and "Foreign Precious Antique Camera Exhibition Area".

The museum features old cameras. Many precious cameras can be seen here, especially various antique collection cameras from the old Shanghai brand "Seagull" camera. Each rare out-of-print classic camera of domestic products records the dreams and passions of a generation and tells the story of the ups and downs of China's camera industry; here, you can not only see the development history of China's camera industry, but also enjoy the antique models of Leica, RolleIFLEX and other world-renowned brands, and feel the immortal legend of old cameras.

There is also a workshop display for installing cameras in the museum. This is not only a exhibition hall, but also a studio. There are still professionals here to install and repair old cameras. Here, you will see the real "living fossils" of Shanghai's light industry.

The route to the museum is very reasonable. The entrance is followed by the signs, and the exit is separated from the entrance to reasonably avoid the flow of visitors. Also not to miss when you come here is the cafe on the second floor. Sitting in such an environment and drinking coffee feels quite like Old Koehler. There are also many art exhibitions about environment and photography in the cafe on the second floor, and each work touches people's hearts.

Shanghai Brush and Ink Museum, an intangible cultural heritage museum hidden in the downtown area

Location: No. 429 Fuzhou Road, Shanghai

Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 (stop at 16:45)

Transportation: People's Square Station on Rail Transit Lines 1, 2 and 8, you can reach it on buses 112, 123, 71, etc.

Price: Free

The Brush and Ink Museum on Fuzhou Road in Shanghai should be the most easily ignored museum in Guangzhou. The facade is narrow and the second floor is suddenly open.

The museum mainly focuses on the intangible cultural heritage brush-Zhou Huchen and the intangible cultural heritage ink-Cao Sugong, to sort out the history of Chinese brushes and ink-making. For those who like traditional Chinese culture, it is a niche museum with a very large amount of information.

Here not only displays the pen-making and ink-making craftsmanship of past dynasties, but also displays the love of brushes used by Shanghai school people in past dynasties. Some are replicas, some are left behind by them during their lifetime.