Building Shanghai: Architecture, Urbanism and Culture since 1949

Building Shanghai: Architecture, Urbanism and Culture since 1949

Venue:
West Bund Museum
2600 Longteng Avenue Xuhui Shanghai
Date:
4/29/2025 - 8/3/2025
Building Shanghai: Architecture, Urbanism and Culture since 1949

Building Shanghai: Architecture, Urbanism and Culture since 1949

4/29/2025 - 8/3/2025
West Bund Museum
2600 Longteng Avenue Xuhui Shanghai
100 - 120

Event details

👉 Closed on Mondays, book at least 1 working day in advance
👉 E-Ticket will be sent to you within 1 working day via SMS starting with【西岸文化艺术季】
👉 Seniors aged 70 and above, as well as children under 1.3 meters in height, are entitled to complimentary admission
👉 No cancellation

Building Shanghai: Architecture, Urbanism and Culture since 1949

2025.4.29一2025.8.3

Tells the history of Shanghai's architecture spanning 75 years
Condensing the cultural microcosm of modern and contemporary Shanghai cities
 
 
How exactly has the new Shanghai been built since 1949?
 
 
 
 
On 29 April 2025, the West Bund Museum will present its first self-curated special exhibition, ‘Building Shanghai: Architecture, City and Culture since 1949’, the world's first systematic study and presentation of the history of Shanghai's contemporary architecture and urban development.
 
The exhibition focuses on the evolution of Shanghai's architecture and urban space from the founding of New China to the present day. Through the types of housing, new city development, public cultural buildings, and urban renewal, the exhibition reveals the complex connection between local creativity and global cultural change, and leads the audience into a seventy-five-year history of the city's founding, where the common memories and emotions of several generations have been brought together.
 
 
 
9 Theme Sections

Over 80 classic cases

Over 300 exhibits
 
 
 
Take you to revisit familiar buildings and neighbourhoods in Shanghai

Detailed presentation of Shanghai's urban texture and cultural evolution
 

Notice

Date: 2025.04.29 - 2025.08.03
 
Opening Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 11:00 - 18:00 (Last Admission 17:00) 
 
Price:
  • ¥120 Single Ticket
Notice:
  • One person, one ticket, valid for one admission (one adult can bring one child under 1.3m free of charge).
  • Shoulder bags, bags larger than 40cm in diameter, strollers, etc. must be stored in accordance with the rules, pets are not allowed;
  • once sold, tickets are non-refundable.
  • Without permission, please do not use professional filming equipment such as tripods, selfie sticks and flashes for filming.
  • Without permission, please do not broadcast any live webcasts or engage in any commercial filming activities in the exhibition hall.
  • Please do not bring dangerous goods or goods with special irritating odour into the exhibition hall.
  • Please do not eat or drink inside the exhibition hall and outside the designated area, drunken people are not allowed to enter the hall, and smoking is prohibited in the whole hall.
  • Civilised exhibition, please do not make noise, chase and play.
  • 12 pre-school age children should be accompanied by their parents to visit the museum.
  • The museum in the peak flow of visitors will be implemented during the period of time, limited flow of visits, please cooperate and understanding.
  • Children under 1.3m are free of charge and need to be accompanied by an adult (one adult can bring a child under 1.3m free admission).
  • Elderly, disabled and military personnel over 70 years old (including) will be admitted after exchanging their free tickets at 1F/2F information counters with valid passes.

 


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Building Shanghai: Architecture, Urbanism and Culture since 1949

Venue:
West Bund Museum
2600 Longteng Avenue Xuhui Shanghai
Date:
4/29/2025 - 8/3/2025
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