Shanghai Museum East

上海博物馆东馆

Free museum where 3,000-year-old bronzes glow in the half-dark

⚠ Closed Tue · bring passport

Hours

10am–6pm (last entry 5pm); closed Tuesdays except public holidays.

Tickets

Permanent galleries free; individuals need no booking, just a passport. Groups of 20+ book by phone. Special shows and the digital gallery may need separate booking or tickets.

Address

1952 Century Avenue, Pudong; individual visitors use the B1 East Gate on Dingxiang Road

A stack of fluted white stone blocks closing off the end of Century Avenue: this is the Shanghai Museum's big new Pudong home, opened in 2024. The bronze galleries steal the show, with three-thousand-year-old ritual cauldrons and wine vessels lit like sculpture in the half-dark. Then come ceramics, calligraphy, jade, and a Jiangnan gallery on the life and crafts of the Yangtze delta. You won't get through it in a day, so pick three rooms and go deep. Weekday mornings right after opening are quietest.