Shanghai Art Museum
Located on busy Nanjing Road in People's Square, Shanghai Art Museum has 12 exhibition halls, covering more than 5,000 sq. m. The building itself is a charming area to walk around as it used to be the club house of Shanghai's Race Club built in the 1930s.
It was turned into a museum in March 2000 and interestingly during the process some distinctly Chinese features were added to this British style building. These are the wooden structures which one may notice next to the front gate. They're a feature of traditional Chinese architecture in palaces and temples. The structure is held together through hammering together wooden joins and not a single piece of metal bolts or screws are used.
Nominally the museum has no set style though there's a bias towards contemporary Chinese art—which makes an interesting contrast to the faded grandeur of the colonial era building.
