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Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center 上海城市规划展示馆Shànghǎi Chéngshì Guīhuà Zhǎnshìguǎn
4A scenic area · Shanghai, Shanghai
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shanghai
- Region
- Shanghai
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center
A six-storey exhibition hall on People's Square, opened in 2000 and described by the city as China's first venue dedicated to urban planning, that explains how Shanghai has grown and how it plans to develop. Its displays, renewed during a closure from late 2019 to 2022, use planning maps, scale models, films and interactive exhibits in themed galleries on the city's culture, innovation and ecology.
How to get to Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center
On People's Square in Huangpu District, beside Exit 3 of People's Square station (Lines 1, 2 and 8). Closed on Wednesdays except public holidays.
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 - 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 - Former French Concession 原法租界 under 10 km
Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
Also within 20 km: Madame Tussauds Shanghai 上海杜莎夫人蜡像馆 (under 10 km), Park Hotel 国际饭店 (under 10 km), Sihang Warehouse 四行仓库 (under 10 km), Second CPC National Congress Memorial 中共二大会址 (under 10 km), Holy Trinity Church 圣三一堂 (under 10 km), Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party 中共一大会址 (under 10 km).
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