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Museums pique kids' curiosity
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Jan 29th 2014, 04:51

2014-01-29 13:51 Shanghai Daily Web Editor: Wang YuXia


Shanghai is filled with interesting museums, and they will educate, intrigue and delight children with exhibitions of animation characters, insects and chopsticks, to name a few.


Here are some lesser-known, non-art museums scattered around the city. They're good destinations on weekends and when foul air means that outdoor activities are canceled.


Animation Museum


Children will love this museum covering the world history of cartoons and animation. The first floor covers history, from China's shadow puppets to Disney's characters. The main hall is filled with posters and life-sized statues. Short animation is screened.


In a second-floor studio, children can dub voices for favorite characters.


Tel: 5895-7998


Address: 69 Zhangjiang Rd, Pudong New Area


Opening hours: 10am-5pm, closed on Mondays


Admission: 30 yuan


Brush and Ink Museum


The one-room museum covers the history of ink, inkstones and brushes. It explains how to make ink and features stories about Shanghai and its calligraphers. Brushes and inkstones are displayed, each with an English audio explanation.


Tel: 5169-8918


Address: 2/F, 429 Fujiang Road M., Huangpu Distict


Opening hours: 9:30am-5:30pm, daily


Admission: Free


Chopsticks Museum


This is one of the city's smallest museums and it's a bit rundown. It's the personal exhibition of Lan Xiang, who has collected 2,000 pairs of chopsticks from around Asia. Lan, 81, lives upstairs. If inclined, the former writer can discuss his chopstick journeys. The prized pair is a gilded silver set from the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907).


Tel: 5671-7528


Address: 191 Duolun Rd, Hongkou District


Opening hours: Call in advance


Admission: Free


Glass Museum


The museum, a former glass furnace workshop, explains the making of glass as well as artistic glass pieces. Works from China and overseas are displayed. The museum itself is visually dramatic with its play of light and shadow. It features interactive displays.


Tel: 6618-1970


Address: Bldg 8, 685 Changjiang Rd W., Baoshan District


Opening hours: 9:30am-4:30pm, closed on Mondays


Admission: 20 yuan


Insect Museum


The museum contains more than a million specimens of insects from around the world, many rare and beautiful, some extinct. It contains what many consider the world's most beautiful insect, the electric blue Morpho Helena from South America. The museum was founded in 1868 and once called the British Museum in Asia. Today it's in a modern building.


Tel: 5492-4191


Address: 300 Fenglin Rd, Xuhui District


Opening hours: 9am-4pm


Admission: 15 yuan for adults, 10 yuan for children


Jewish Refugee Museum


The museum is housed in the former Ohel Moshe Synagogue built in 1927. It memorializes the time when Shanghai gave refuge to all people fleeing Nazi Germany. Between 1937 and 1941, Shanghai gave sanctuary to around 25,000 Jewish refugees without visas.


The museum contains many cultural relics, scrolls and photographs of Jewish life in the city at the time. It contains a database with the names of Jewish refugees who lived in Shanghai.


Tel: 6512-6669


Address: 62 Changyang Rd, Hongkou District


Opening hours: 9am-5pm


Admission: 50 yuan


Music Box Museum


The exhibition features the European music boxes and gramophones of a Japanese collector. It showcases what it calls the world's oldest music box, a small, gold-colored box made by Swiss watchmaker Antol Fabre in 1796. One music box shows a little boy who reaches for a jam jar, but when the box is wound, the angry face of his grandmother appears.


Tel: 6854-7647


Address: 425 Dingxiang Rd, inside Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Pudong New Area


Opening hours: 10am-5pm


Admission: 50 yuan


Postal Museum


This is a wonderful free museum with a beautiful Baroque clock tower, rooftop garden and glassed-in courtyard. The 1924 landmark building was the original Shanghai Postal Museum and explains the history of the postal service in China. It's filled with interesting exhibits, concession-period post marks, clay seals and postage stamps. It offers an excellent low-level view, west up Suzhou Creek and east towards the Pudong skyline with the Art Deco Broadway Mansions in front.


Tel: 6393-6666 ext. 1280


Address: 250 Suzhou Rd, Hongkou District


Opening hours: Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, 9am-5pm


Admission: Free


Public Security Museum


Nearly 8,000 items are showcased in the museum about public security from the mid-19th century to date. Wax policemen wear uniforms from China, India and England. Uniforms, badges, weapons and emergency vehicles are displayed. The highlight is a pistol owned by Dr Sun Yat-sen.


Tel: 6472-0256


Address: 2-4/F, 518 Ruijin Rd S., Huangpu District


Opening hours: 11am-4pm, closed on Sundays


Admission: 8 yuan


Typewriter Museum


For those who forget what preceded the computer, this museum exhibits 50 typewriters, the oldest made in 1809. They are on loan from Lu Hanbin, a Chinese businessman living in the Czech Republic.


Tel: 6466-4556


Address: 248 Wuxing Rd, Xuhui District


Opening hours: 10am-10pm


Admission: Free


Suzhou garden tour


Visiting classic gardens with family during the Spring Festival is a tradition in Suzhou. This year the Suzhou gardens organize cultural holiday activities. Visitors can enjoy a flower exhibition in Liu Garden (January 31-February 14), pingtan performances in Wangshi Garden (9:30-11:30am, 1-4pm, February 1-4) and a bonsai exhibition in the Humble Administrator's Garden.


Magic at the zoo


The Shanghai Zoo will stage magic and balloon shows and a zodiac exhibition about the 2014 Year of the Horse. Craftsmen will demonstrate paper-cutting, dough modeling, sugar painting, sachet making and other traditional folk arts featuring horses.Visitors can spot certain horses at the zoo in a treasure hunt and win gifts. They can learn to fold paper horses and to paint them.


9/11 museum opens in May


A museum dedicated to victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks will open to the public in mid-May in a giant cavern beneath the World Trade Center site — with a world-class admissions price of US$24.


The opening has been delayed for years due to funding disputes, engineering challenges and a nearly disastrous flood.


But the fee drew protests from critics, including some relatives of 9/11 victims, who said the high price would keep average Americans out.





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