Museum Series / Shanghai Textile Museum

Free, no reservation required
It's a museum worth visiting, with a rich content, from ancient to modern textile history, the development of the textile industry as a pillar industry in Shanghai, the science popularization tube shows cotton, hemp, silk and other natural fibers, as well as synthetic fibers, magical regenerated protein fibers, clothes woven from pearls, milk, soybeans~ It also introduces the use of textiles in aviation, transportation, agriculture, medical and other fields.

Open from Tuesday to Sunday 9:30~16:00, free explanation available at 15:00 every day
(Closed on Mondays and during the Spring Festival holiday)
Address: 128-150 Macau Road, Putuo District, Shanghai
Transportation information: Bus 105, 76, 64 (Changhua Road Macau Road Station) Metro Line 13 (Jiangning Road Station) Underground parking spaces available (green travel recommended)

Mainly consists of four exhibition halls:
History Hall: With the historical facts of ancient, modern, contemporary and current times, it interprets the development history of Shanghai's textiles; highlights the historical position of textiles in forming Shanghai, an international metropolis, and the role of the 'mother industry', 'pillar industry'; looks forward to the industrial development prospects of 'science and technology and fashion'.
Yingying Hall: It has collected the textile sages, model workers, textile industrialists, experts and other textile elites of various eras in Shanghai; it shows the heroic deeds of textile heroes during the establishment of New China; it looks back at the unforgettable old textile brands and historical relics in Shanghai.
Science Popularization Hall: By interpreting 'magical fiber footprints, colorful fabric world, complete process chain, wide application space' and other textile knowledge, it embodies knowledge, fun, participation and interaction.
Special Exhibition Hall: Different themes at different times.

Since the establishment of the Shanghai Machine Weaving Bureau in 1878, Shanghai's power textile industry has gone through nearly 150 years, absorbing 550,000 jobs, and is Shanghai's mother industry. In order to display the origin, growth, brilliance, reform and outlook of Shanghai's textiles, the Oriental International Group (formerly Shanghai Textile Group) has specially selected the site on the south bank of the Suzhou River, with a hundred years of history, the original Shanghai Shenxin Textile No. 9 Factory (the original Shanghai Machine Weaving Bureau) old site, fully invested in the establishment of the Shanghai Textile Museum.
Here, the famous 'Shen Nine Two Two' strike in the history of Shanghai workers' movement took place, and it also witnessed the 'first hammer of ingot pressure' in the adjustment and reform of Shanghai's textiles. Now, with nearly 7,000 square meters of exhibition area, through physical objects, materials, scenes, pictures and texts, models and multimedia and other means, it sorts out the historical context of Shanghai's textiles, interprets the industrial culture of Shanghai's textiles for more than 6,000 years, and lets the public see a dynamic, rich, and brand new Shanghai textiles.

Post by MAXIMILIAN STEVENS | Mar 25, 2024