Shanghai History Museum

Shanghai History Museum was founded in 1983. He moved several times and in 2001 was located on the first floor of the Shanghai TV Tower, where he is now.

The museum fund includes more than 30 thousand different exhibits. Among them are ancient Shanghai relics and more than 18 thousand modern objects, including those preserved after colonial times. Among the most important and rare museum values can be called embroidery "Flowers, insects and fish", made in the Minsk era of Han Simen huge jade screen made of natural stone, on which with the help of agates, emeralds, jade, pearls and jasper recreated everyday scenes of the life of the Chinese ancient bronze gun and stones.

The museum has five permanent exhibitions dedicated to various aspects of the history of China and the city: “The Road to the Past of Huating” (Huating is the largest cultural center of China during the Ming period, now the Songjiang district in Shanghai), “The style and life of the city”, “Open Ports Period”, “Foreign Settlements” and “Traces of ancient Shanghai”.