Shanghai Art Museum combines two objects at once: Museum of Modern Art and the exhibition area, which are located in the heart of Shanghai. The building itself has become famous because of the unusual turret clock.

In the building are the Shanghai Biennale, as well as a variety of exhibitions of contemporary artists. There are two permanent exhibitions, which are exhibited objects of folk traditional Chinese art. The area of ​​the entire museum site takes more than two thousand square meters. meters.

  Shanghai Art Museum building used to belong to the club and the race was called "Building Shanghai Hippodrome." It is located on the edge of People's Square in the house №325, Nankins Street in Huangpu District. Above the museum is the famous and popular among the local population of the place - restaurant "Kathleen Fife."

The house is built in the style of English neo-classicism in 1933. At that time racetracks, horse racing and bring the city treasury a huge income. In 1937, the Japanese invaded Shanghai, and the building occupied by the military. In the early 40s in the vicinity of the building was dug a huge number of tunnels that exist to this day. With the help of one of these tunnels are connected, for example, the hotel "Marriott" and Art Museum. In 1952, the house passed into the possession of the Library of Shanghai, and in 1955 the house was restored, the roof terrace made. Then, in 1996, the opening of a high-rise building of the Art Museum, where it is today, and the old building was reconstructed.

Shanghai Art Museum is an important part of the cultural life of the city. It is here that are all Chinese photography exhibition, paintings, installations, etc. The museum also contains a collection of items of antiquity, made of bronze, porcelain, ceramics, precious and semiprecious stones, works of art and culture, as well as products that allow you to understand the history of the development of ceramic art in China. The number of exhibits exceeds 8,000.

Inside the museum are 12 rooms, including a gallery, bookshop, ceramics room, a conference room, library, lecture hall, porcelain and cafes. Also in the building of the Shanghai Art Museum is a huge collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy.