Shanghai Telecommunications Museum
🌟Building Overview:
The Shanghai Telecommunications Museum building was invested and built by the Danish Great North Telegraph Company and designed by the British New Rui and Foreign Company. It is a Western-style building with a brick-concrete structure, covering an area of 1562 square meters and a building area of about 4060 square meters.
❤Architectural Style:
The building is in the style of late French Renaissance, discarding overly complex textures and decorations, simplifying lines, and appearing more concise and pure. The facades of the bottom two floors are veneered with stone, and the upper part uniformly uses water-brushed stone. The building is symmetrical on both sides with the main entrance as the vertical axis. The entire building is divided into three different styles of facades from the first to the second floor, the third to the sixth floor, and the seventh floor and above. The exterior wall is veneered with smooth stones, forming a building appearance dominated by horizontal lines, making the entire building elegant, symmetrical, coordinated, and stable.
👍Exterior Highlights:
The facade renovation uses crystal clear exterior wall paint to brush the walls, the facade windows are replaced with black aluminum alloy windows according to the original style, the wooden railings are replaced and renovated, and stainless steel flagpoles and light boxes are added to the main facade and entrance. In addition, the main entrance and the north gate have designed cast copper decorative glass doors, and the positions of the two doors and windows on the north facade have been adjusted. The roof of the building (fifth floor) in the middle has been added and renovated, using sandwich panels to make a black iron roof, and the windows are in the style of old tiger windows.
✅Lobby Style:
The lobby of the building uses gold, yellow, dark red and other common main colors in European style, mixed with white, making the color look bright and generous. And some local Celtic patterns, patterns and Viking decorative symbols reveal a strong Nordic color.
🌟First Floor Lobby:
The first floor lobby is more gorgeous, with light white marble floors and wall columns, gold-framed ceilings, and exquisite chandeliers. The first floor also has a bronze statue of Edward Swenson, the first general manager of the Great North Telegraph Company.
👍Special Highlights:
Among the buildings on the Bund, this building is not large but has a unique style. The biggest highlight of the building is that the top of the building has a black dome roof with Rococo art style at both ends, forming a strong contrast and bright contrast with the white wall. This has also become the iconic decoration of this building.
❤Museum Overview:
The Telecommunications Museum is on the third and fourth floors. It is divided into six exhibition halls: Telegraph Communication, City Telephone Communication, Long-distance Telephone Communication, Wireless Communication, Comprehensive Collection, and Temporary Exhibition Hall. The total area is about 2500 square meters.
👍Main Exhibition Area:
It shows the development process of Shanghai from the initial telegraph to modern wireless communication according to the timeline. The museum displays precious historical materials, rich physical objects, and various display methods to restore the historical appearance and interpret the long development history of China's telecommunications industry for more than 140 years.
❤Recommended Exhibits:
You can see many old-fashioned telegraph machines, switches, telegraph lines, telephones of various eras, modern mobile phones, telephone cards, etc.
✅Century History:
In 1882, the first telephone exchange in Shanghai was born here.
In 1922, the building was completed.
In 1923, a telephone line from the city to Nanxiang was opened.
In 1936, a telephone line from Shanghai to Tokyo, Japan was opened.
After 1949, government agencies such as the Shanghai Urban Transportation Administration, the Shanghai Public Utilities Bureau, and the Shanghai Red Cross Society successively moved into the building for office work.
After the renovation in 1994, the building was used for commercial purposes, with the ground floor as a bank business hall and the second to fifth floors as office spaces.
In 2010, the Shanghai Telecommunications Museum opened.
In 2012, it became the Shanghai Patriotic Education Base.
In 2019, it became the Central Enterprise Industrial Cultural Heritage in the Information and Communication Industry.
In 2020, it became the Shanghai Science Popularization Base.
In 2021, it became the Central Enterprise Patriotic Education Base.
📍Detailed Address:
No. 34, Yan'an East Road, Huangpu District
🕙Business Hours:
Saturday 9:30 to 16:30
🚉Transportation Strategy:
End station of Line 2 on the Bund, 868, 135
There are many special museums in Shanghai, and this is one. However, there are not many opening hours, and it is easy to not open during holidays. It details how Shanghai, an international metropolis, develops telecommunications business step by step.
The Telecom Museum, at No. 34 Yan'an East Road, formerly known as Dabei Telegraph Company, has a century-old history. In the Bund complex is not the conspicuous buildings, the museum in the turtles are also lackluster, is the appearance of a traditional museum, but it is also excellent to understand the history of the electronics industry.
🏫 The development of Shanghai Telecom is also the development of China Telecom. Recently, I have seen more spy dramas, so I will go to this museum. 🏫 Shanghai Telecom Museum is the Telegraph Building (now an excellent historical building in Shanghai) built by Danish Dabei Telegraph Company on the Bund in 1921. By the end of 2021, it will be 100 years old, so the building itself is an antique. 🏫 It's a bit interesting: At the end of Qing Dynasty, the male reporter is reporting. Morse Telegraph machine is the earliest telegraph machine used in Shanghai, including artificial machine, Wesden Express and Clear Express. Because all three machines use Morse invented code symbols to send telegraph, they are collectively referred to as "Morse Telegraph machine". Li Hongzhang's pro-book called for his own telegrams. Since 1871, diplomatic agencies of many countries have successively submitted to the Qing government or Shanghai government to install telegrams, and they were stubborn and stubborn after rejection, and the Qing government defaulted. During this period, many intellectuals in China called for their own telegraph, and Li Hongzhang, the head of foreign affairs, wrote a book to promote the rise of China's national telecom industry. The General Administration of Telegraphs was born in Jin and the Shanghai Telegraph Bureau was established in Shanghai. The Jinzhang Telegraph circuit was opened on December 28, 1881.
Only open on weekends, on the 3rd and 4th floors, the area is quite large. The wax statue is like where a real person sits. With breathing, it is a real person. The exhibition is a variety of real objects, small to a telecommunications part, large to a whole row of electric cabinets. 100 years in history is not far away, but in the network era, we walked into the telecom museum and felt the scene 100 years ago as if we saw the "light of civilization" of telecom, too far away from now, and too many changes have occurred in less than 100 years. Like thousands of years of human development.
[Candy] tips: Recently, the WeChat public account and the official website are under maintenance and cannot be reserved online. After consultation, you can go directly and show your health code and ID card at the door. [Candy] Exhibition highlights: 1. See the building predecessor is Dabei Telegraph Company (founded by Danes), neoclassical style. (Figure 1) Founder sculpture (Figure 7) Old-fashioned elevator inside (Figure 9) 2. Understanding the earliest telegraph machine in the history of telecommunications development Morse (Figure 2) The earliest mobile phone produced in Shanghai (Figure 3) The first generation of mobile phones in the world Motorola (Figure 4) The earliest displayless beeper (BB) in Shanghai (Figure 5) Shanghai's earliest telephone communication cable was the European access submarine cable (Figure 8)
Visited the Shanghai Telecom Museum and found that the telephone bureau was there in the 1930s and it was not long before Bell invented the telephone in 1877. Shanghai 1882 had a telephone bureau. Also saw the earliest mobile phone big brother in the 1980s, bp lager public phone booths, etc. have become history. However, it is said that the Telecom Museum, telecom broadband-related mobile phone history switch router Shanghai Telecom cellular data history is still less displayed, most of them are telegraph and telephone history.