Shanghai Post Museum | Outstanding Historical Building in Shanghai
| Outstanding Historical Building in Shanghai.🏛️【Museum Guide】
Shanghai Post Museum, formerly known as Shanghai Post Office, is one of the birthplaces of modern post in Shanghai.
🌟Historical Heritage:
Located in the Shanghai Post Office building on the north side of Sichuan Road Bridge on the Suzhou River in Shanghai. Shanghai Post Museum is the first provincial postal industry museum in China.
🧳Previous Life of the Building:
The Shanghai Post Museum building was designed by British architects Si Jiusheng and Shi Binsheng, and the construction was contracted by the Chinese merchant Yu Hongji.
✅Architectural Features:
The total area of the building is 25,294 square meters. The building is 'U'-shaped, 51.16 meters high (excluding the height of the flagpole), with one underground floor and four ground floors. The main entrance faces southeast, and the main facades on both sides of the main entrance are made of fine-grained water-brushed stone powder, with nineteen Corinthian columns asymmetrically distributed around. The north side is a mechanized red brick wall. Above the main entrance, there is a bell tower and a tower. The bell tower has a Roman numeral clock with a diameter of 3 meters on the front, and the tower is built on the bell tower, which is a Baroque-style four-corner double-column type. At the bottom and base of the bell tower and tower, there are two torch platforms and two groups of human sculptures respectively.
🌟Main Exhibition Area:
The Shanghai Post Museum consists of a first-floor atrium exhibition area and a second-floor main exhibition area.
✅First Floor Introduction:
The first-floor atrium exhibition area has an area of 1347 square meters, originally a patio, used for car mail transportation.
✅Second Floor Introduction:
The second floor consists of the main exhibition hall, roof garden, and ground floor atrium scene exhibition hall, with an exhibition area of over 8000 square meters. The main exhibition hall on the second floor has an area of over 1500 square meters. The entrance is located in the post office business hall once known as the 'largest hall in the Far East', and is divided into the front hall - Zhu Xuefan, as well as the origin and development, network and technology, business and culture, stamps and philately four exhibition areas.
🧳Historical Review:
In November 1924, the Shanghai Post Office building was completed.
In May 1949, the Shanghai Post Office was taken over by the Shanghai Military Control Committee of the People's Liberation Army.
In 1957, the Shanghai Post and Telecommunications Administration moved in.
On January 1, 2006, the Shanghai Post Museum officially opened to the public for free.
📍Detailed Address:
No. 250, North Suzhou Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai
🕙Opening Hours:
Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday from 9 am to 5 pm
💰Ticket Price:
Free admission
🚉Transportation Guide:
Shanghai Metro Line 10, Line 12 Tiantong Road Station
The Post Museum saw the contribution of the early Party organization leading the workers' movement and the revolutionary ancestors to the birth of New China, saw the performance of advanced models of labor for the postal cause, and saw the various postal services displayed. Mail transport tools and many stamps with deep cultural heritage! Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang
A variety of post boxes. Quite interesting. Colorful fun. Long history. Walking by and strolling to see you can't miss it. Awesome. First class. Ha ha ha.
Walking along the Suzhou River, there are many Chinese and Western centuries-old buildings on both sides of the bank, the most beautiful of which must be the postal museum of this building, the focus of the building is its beautiful and charming bell tower. The bell tower is divided into two parts, with a large self-tone clock embedded in the lower part of the 3 meters diameter, the upper part is a tower, with a hollow double cylinder structure on all sides, which is quite tall and long, and the blue-green dome is dazzling. There are two sets of sculptures of people on both sides, which are very well preserved and valuable. The clock tower stands on the banks of the Suzhou River, witnessing the changing history of the century!
🏫 Shanghai Post Museum, located at No. 276 Suzhou Road, North of Sichuan Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai, formerly the seat of Shanghai General Post Office. Shanghai is one of the birthplaces of modern China Post. The Shanghai General Post Office Building was designed and built in 1922 and completed in November 1924. It was listed as one of the top ten buildings in Shanghai at that time. In 1996, the Shanghai General Post Office Building was listed as a key cultural relics protection unit in the country. In 2006, it was rebuilt as Shanghai Post Museum, the first provincial postal industry museum in China. It has a rich collection and can understand the history of China Post. The Post Museum is strategically located, the entrance is the Suzhou River, not far to the east, is the Zhapu Road Bridge and the Waibaidu Bridge, you can see the four landmark buildings of the magic capital in Lujiazui, Pudong.
Come on February 3, 2022. Shanghai has a relatively important position in the history of China's recent modern postal development, so it is very valuable to come to the Shanghai Post Museum to see. The building itself is a hundred years old (opened in 1922), and not only has a beautiful appearance, but also a rich functional facility that reflects the style of the modern postal service. The history of the exhibition in the museum has been covered from ancient to modern, and it also involves the core business of the postal service and even the expansion and extension of the business, which is very rich in content. The area is relatively small, and the story line of the exhibition is not designed reasonably enough, many English translations are also obviously wrong, and there are many areas for improvement. But overall, the museum is still very reliable. Visiting the museum is free now, you only need to search for "Travel to Shanghai" in Alipay or WeChat to make an appointment. You can make an appointment for 3 people at a time, and you need to enter your name, ID number and mobile phone number. The parking lot of the museum is not external. If you come by yourself, it is a pity to park in the Xingyi Center diagonally across the road, 10 yuan/hour.
Living on North Sichuan Road since childhood, I am very close to the General Post Office, but I have never stopped to appreciate it. Maybe it is "I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, only because I am in it". Only by taking children to activities on Sunday can we know the true face of Lushan Mountain. Typical Baroque architectural style, along the North Suzhou River, can be seen from any angle, as if to come to Europe. The import is located at 395 Tiantong Road. The large white marble sign at the entrance reads "Post Museum" guide sign - "2 Floor for business hall and museum, 3-4 Floor for office space. The museum opens on Wednesday 3467. You can take the elevator upstairs, but we chose to take the marble spiral staircase. On the second floor, as soon as you enter the door, you will be amazed. It is so magnificent that you can imagine the grand occasion when all the windows are open. The Postal Bank is open every day, but the general postal service is not available on weekends. Started to visit, in view of the inside is not allowed to take photos, so abide by the law, photos flow out not much, you go to see it for yourself. The Shanghai Post Museum was built in 1922 by the General Administration of Shanghai Post and completed in 1924. It has been listed as one of the top ten buildings in Shanghai. Now it is also one of the national key cultural relics protection. The exhibition hall is large in area and rich in content and form. It has the development of postal service, the founder, the formation of stamps, the process of a letter, the postboxes, stamps and children all over the world can interact and enjoy teaching. There is also a thermostat exhibition hall which I like best. Thermostatic protection must be precious. There are full-page stamps of the Year of the Monkey, and misprinted rare stamps. Unfortunately, the rooftop garden is not open to the public. Down the elevator is a courtyard on the first floor, with carriages and trains that used to carry mail.