Shanghai Museum of Arts and Crafts

In the 1960s, Shanghai’s best folk craft artists worked and taught skills here successively. In the 1970s, it became Shanghai Arts and Crafts Showroom. Having been officially opened to the public since October 2002, it is the first industrial museum in Shanghai. The museum is composed of three exhibition halls (i.e. folk arts and crafts on the first floor, sculpture on the second floor and embroidery on the third floor) and professional studios, with more than 50 arts and crafts professionals. The museum collects many Shanghai-style arts and crafts in over 10 traditional varieties, such as woolen needlepoint tapestry, embroidery, colored-lantern, dough modeling, paper cutting, jade carving, ivory carving, boxwood carving, lacquer, inlay, inkstone carving, bamboo carving, fine carving, porcelain carving, metal carving and art painting. Many of the collections are representative works left by the last generation of old craftsmen as well as fine arts and crafts of Shanghai. The exhibition highlights the introduction to artist inheritance relationship, production process, materials and tools. Together with on-site operation performance, it highlights the dominant idea of people-orientation. The exhibition sketches out the history, style and skill characteristics of varieties of Shanghai’s arts and crafts industry. Address: No.79 Fenyang Road Tel: 021-64314074