Shanghai T’ou-Sè-Wè Museum

T’ou-Sè-Wè is an important birthplace of Shanghai culture and craft. Painting, sculpture, printing and other crafts of Zi-Ka-Wei T’ou-Sè-Wè Orphanage are famous both at home and abroad and reflect Chinese nation’s wisdom and inclusiveness. Famous painter Xu Beihong praised T’ou-Sè-Wè for its “precious contributions” to “cultural exchange between China and the West”, and considered it to be “the cradle of Western painting in China”. Shanghai T’ou-Sè-Wè Museum has been open to the public since June 2010, and is located at the former site of T’ou-Sè-Wè Orphanage Handicraft Workshop. It is composed of four parts, i.e. T’ou-Sè-Wè and World Expositions, A Cultural Complex, Smelting Chinese and Western Influences, and Inheritance and Influence, with a total of over 400 exhibits, including T’ou-Sè-Wè’s Chinese pailou, pagodas, watercolors and other masterpieces attending several World Expos, best works of sculptor Zhang Chongren and Shanghai-style boxwood carving founder Xu Baoqing, and a number of precious cultural relics. The crafts made in T’ou-Sè-Wè attended World Expos for eight times and won many awards. The museum is one of the First Test Units of National Tourism Standardized Construction, Shanghai Patriotic Promotion Site, Education Base of Department for the History & Philosophy of Science at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Religious Studies Major at Fudan University, Spiritual Civilization Joint Development Base of International College of Chinese Studies at Shanghai Normal University, Xuhui District Youth Volunteer Service Base, etc. Address: No.55-1, Puhuitang Road Tel: 021-54249688