Built in 1849, ‘No.1 Waitanyuan’ (33 Zhongshan East Road No.1) is located at the confluence of the Suzhou River and the Huangpu River. It is a ‘Shanghai Excellent Historical Building’ and an important part and origin of the national key cultural relics protection unit ‘Waitan Architectural Complex’. For more than 170 years, this humanistic and historical landmark with profound heritage has witnessed the past and present history of Shanghai becoming a world-class oriental metropolis. The modern urbanization process and the development of culture, finance, and commerce in Shanghai all originated from here. During the ART SHANGHAI exhibition, this historical building, which has a special position in both the urban history and urban architectural history of Shanghai, is open to the public as an art exhibition space. Different from the traditional art museum’s ‘white cube space’, the series of exhibitions abandon the linear order related to time sequence, process, and category in the exhibition layout. The building space is divided into several independent fields to restore and recall the’storiness’ and context of this building itself, ultimately presenting an in-depth, vivid, and complete sensory experience.
Opening hours: Closed to the public except during exhibitions. The opening hours during exhibitions are subject to specific exhibitions.
No.1 Waitanyuan
Built in 1849, ‘No.1 Waitanyuan’ (33 Zhongshan East Road No.1) is located at the conflue[...]
