Yuan Dynasty Water Gate Museum 上海元代水闸遗址博物馆Shànghǎi Yuándài Shuǐzhá Yízhǐ Bówùguǎn

About Yuan Dynasty Water Gate Museum

A museum built over a Yuan-dynasty stone sluice gate found during building work at Zhidan Road in the early 2000s, one of six gates built around 1325 under the hydraulic engineer and painter Ren Renfa to control the silting Wusong River. The gate floor, about 42 m long, with its posts and walls laid on a dense bed of numbered timber piles, lies more than 7 m below street level and is seen from a glass walkway inside the hall; the find was named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2006.

How to get to Yuan Dynasty Water Gate Museum

At 619 Yanchang West Road, on the corner of Zhidan Road in Putuo District, about 1 km from Xincun Road station (Line 7).

Nearby

• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 under 10 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• Former French Concession 原法租界 under 10 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
• Yu Garden & City God Temple 豫园与城隍庙 under 10 km
  A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple
• Lujiazui 陆家嘴 under 10 km
  Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite
• The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 under 10 km
  1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other

Also within 20 km: Zhenru Temple 真如寺 (under 10 km), St. John's University Historic Campus 圣约翰大学近代建筑 (under 10 km), Marble Hall (China Welfare Institute Children's Palace) 中福会少年宫 (under 10 km), Sihang Warehouse 四行仓库 (under 10 km), Moller Villa 马勒别墅 (under 10 km), Changfeng Park and Changfeng Ocean World 长风公园 (under 10 km).

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Learn more

• Wikipedia (Chinese)