Shanghai Science Hall (former French School) 上海科学会堂Shànghǎi Kēxué Huìtáng

About Shanghai Science Hall (former French School)

A French Renaissance-style building with Art Nouveau details on Nanchang Road, completed in 1917 as the French Club and given to the French Concession's French School in 1926. Since 1958 it has been the Shanghai Science Hall, home of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology, so it is a working office and conference venue and visitors see its north front and entrance porch from Nanchang Road.

How to get to Shanghai Science Hall (former French School)

At 47 Nanchang Road in Huangpu District, about 400 m from Middle Huaihai Road station (Line 13); it is a working institution, so the visit is a look from the street.

Nearby

• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 under 10 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• 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
• Former French Concession 原法租界 under 10 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
• 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
• Lujiazui 陆家嘴 under 10 km
  Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite

Also within 20 km: Former Headquarters of the Socialist Youth League of China (Yuyangli) 中国社会主义青年团中央机关旧址 (under 10 km), Former Residence of Sun Yat-sen 上海孙中山故居 (under 10 km), Second CPC National Congress Memorial 中共二大会址 (under 10 km), Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party 中共一大会址 (under 10 km), Former Residence of Zhou Enlai (Zhou Gongguan) 周公馆 (under 10 km), Moller Villa 马勒别墅 (under 10 km).

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Learn more

• Wikipedia (Chinese)