Shanghai Science and Technology Museum is a large museum in Pudong

Pudong

Pudong |Bank]]") is an area of Shanghai, China, located along the east side of the Huangpu River, across from the historic city center of Shanghai in Puxi. Formerly a little-developed agricultural area linked only by ferries, Pudong has grown rapidly since the 1990s and emerged as China's financial...

, Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

, close to Century Park, the largest park within the inner districts of the city.

The museum covers an area of 68,000 square meters, a floor space of 98,000 square meters and an exhibition space of 65,500 square meters with planned visiting flow of 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 visitors per year and investment of RMB 1.755 billion Yuan. As of July 2010 the museum will have attracted over 23,000,000 visitors making it one of China's most visited modern museums.

Shanghai Science & Technology Museum opened to the public on December 18, 2001. The original design of the museum and its core exhibits was managed by Shanghai based high tech and multimedia firm Creative Star Digital. The construction of the museum cost 3.75 billion RMB, and now features over 14 interactive multimedia exhibits open to the public.

Exhibitions

The museum has 13 main permanent exhibitions and 4 science theaters. The theaters constitute the largest science education cinema in Asia with 10,000 annual films shown. The exhibitions are:

1. Spectrum of Life: A natural exhibit which imitates the scenery of Yunnan Province and displays its diversity of creatures.
2. Light of Exploration is an exhibit which showcases human scientific achievements of the 20th century.
3. Home on Earth
4. World of Robots
5. Human and Health
6. Earth Exploration
7. Light of Wisdom
8. Space Navigation
9. Information Era
10. Cradle of Design
11. Children's Rainbow Land
12. Animal Hall
13. Spiders Exhibition

There are also two temporary exhibition halls, the Chinese Ancient Science and Technology Gallery which showcases ancient Chinese inventions and works, the Explorer's Gallery featuring Chinese and foreign explorers and the Academician's Gallery featuring contemporary scientists from Shanghai.

The four science theaters are:

1. IMAX
   IMAX
   IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...
   
    3D Theater
2. IMAX
   IMAX
   IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...
   
    Dome Theater
3. IWERKS Theater
4. Space Theater

Hours of Operation

The museum is open from 9:00 AM to 5:15 PM. It is closed Mondays (except holidays).

Transportation

The museum is served by the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum station on Shanghai Metro Line 2

Shanghai Metro Line 2

Line 2 forms the east-west axis of the Shanghai metro network, intersecting with the north-south axis Line 1 at People's Square. With a length of nearly 64 km, it is the longest line in the metro system. Line 2 runs from Xujing East in the west to Pudong International Airport in the east,...

. Another subway station nearby is Pudian Road Station on Line 4. In addition, several buses such as 794, 640 also stop nearby.

Appearance in popular media

Kung Fu Dunk

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starring Jay Chou

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 has many scenes filmed from here.

Chandni Chowk to China

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, an Indian film starring Akshay Kumar

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 has been filmed here

Shanghai's Expo 2010

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 video has several promotional scenes shot on location here.

The museum served as the pit stop for leg 10 of The Amazing Race 16

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External links

• Shanghai Science and Technology Museum

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