The Shanghai Automobile Museum is located in the Auto Expo Park in Anting, Jiading, Shanghai. It was officially opened to the public in January 2007. The venue covers an area of ​​11,700 square meters, with a construction area of ​​27,985 square meters, a building height of 32.45 meters, and a total exhibition area of ​​about 10,000 square meters. Inside the Automobile Museum, there are four different display areas, including the History Museum, the Collection, the Discovery Center and the Exhibition Area. The Shanghai Automobile Museum houses a collection of classic and antique cars of more than 20 brands.

The Shanghai Automobile Museum is one of China’s professional automobile museums. It is one of the key cultural projects for auto science education and promotion of automobile culture in Shanghai. It is also an important landmark project of Shanghai International Automobile City.

building
The Shanghai Automobile Museum is a five-storey building with the essence of “communication and integration of space, visual penetration and communication”. Its design is undertaken by the German IFB company and the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tongji University. The building’s façade is covered with a large area of ​​transparent glass, allowing visitors to enjoy the natural landscape of the surrounding park. At the same time, there are several different levels of terraces and roof terraces, and the interior of the building is designed to be open and closed. Visual effects.

The shape design of the venue uses a flowing curve, symbolizing the trajectory of the car at high speed, reflecting the sporty theme of the car museum, and its architecture is also like a superimposed book, metaphorizing the museum’s knowledge and cultural taste.

Exhibition
According to its functions, the interior space of the Shanghai Automobile Museum is divided into five parts: the historical museum, the collection hall, the exploration hall, the conference and leisure area, and the temporary exhibition area. The total exhibition area is about 10,000 square meters.

History Museum
The History Museum is located on the first floor of the Shanghai Automobile Museum. The history pavilion is based on the development of the history of the car for centuries. It integrates all important stages of the car development process into preface, exploration and birth, practical and mass production, streamline and speed, diversity and excitement. Eight theme exhibition halls, sports and driving, energy saving and electronics, and China’s automobile industry, showcase the history of world automobile development through the selection of more than 20 classic representative vehicles and important events, reflecting the significant impact of automobiles on the development of human society.

Collection Museum
The museum is located on the second floor of the Shanghai Automobile Museum. It was renovated in four months and was completely upgraded from the original antique car museum. The new exhibition area is nearly 2,000 square meters and was newly opened in April 2014. The exhibition space includes seven sections, such as “Boiled Age”, “Golden Years”, “All the Way”, “Swaying Car Shadow”, “Mini Charm” and “National Dream” and “Legend Car”. The exhibits cover nearly 100 years of production. Forty precious vintage cars.

The collection has a full range of antique car models, a 1/8 oversized model, and a detailed body detail. A series of antique refueling equipment exhibits more than 30 pieces, distributed in all corners of the pavilion, from the hand-cranked oil pump produced in the 1910s to the glass cylinder oil pump that can monitor the quality of oil in the 1920s. The cart, and the watch-type metering oil pump of the 1930s, fully shows the historical changes of the gas station.

Exploration Museum
The Auto Discovery Museum is located on the third floor of the museum. The Auto Discovery Pavilion was built with the support of the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission’s special funds, and was built by automobile experts, display experts and relevant educators. The Auto Discovery Pavilion has been under construction since 2008. It was completed in October 2009 and passed the acceptance of the Science and Technology Commission. It was completed on December 18, 2009 and officially opened to the public.

The exhibition area of ​​the car exploration hall is about 2,000 square meters. It is divided into three functional areas: automobile basic knowledge, automobile design and automobile manufacturing, and amusement experience. There are more than 10 physical and mechanical demonstration items and more than 20 multimedia interactive experience items. The system is systematically and extensively described in terms of vehicle construction, power, safety, comfort and the future of the car. Among them, more than ten exhibition items and game projects, such as the car ideological theme exhibition, CARRARA simulation speed field, auto parts demonstration, automobile design and manufacturing plant, automobile simulation driving, intelligence competition field, etc., let the audience enter the car in the brain. The world of scientific knowledge.

Collection
The Shanghai Automobile Museum is a representative and contributor to more than 20 brands of classic antique cars. These include the world’s first car and some of China’s first cars. The five national cars: Ford T-car, Citroen 2CV, Volkswagen Beetle, Fiat 500, Toyota Corolla; Shanghai Automobile Museum showcases a number of national cars in the United States, Germany, France, Italy and Japan.

The Shanghai Automobile Museum is a representative and contributor to more than 20 brands of classic antique cars. These include the world’s first car and some of China’s first cars. The five national cars: Ford T-car, Citroen 2CV, Volkswagen Beetle, Fiat 500, Toyota Corolla; Shanghai Automobile Museum showcases a number of national cars in the United States, Germany, France, Italy and Japan.

1902 Peugeot Type 39
Peugeot Motor Company
The Model 39 began production in 1902 and produced 100 units in its first year. Its shape is close to that of a modern car. The 4-cylinder petrol engine is mounted on the front and has a tilting steering wheel.

1936 Buick Century 60
General Motors Corporation
The Buick 60 Series two-seat convertible, produced in 1936, is equipped with a V8 engine with a streamlined shape that can reach speeds of up to 160 km/h. Its aerodynamic shape and bright colors make it a leading brand and a personality. The design of the Buick 60 series of lights, bumpers, etc. shows the style of American cars in the 1930s.

1961 Mercedes-Benz 300D
Mercedes-Benz Automotive
In the 1961 Mercedes-Benz 300D model, a large number of soft fabrics were used in the interior decoration to enhance the comfort of the ride; in terms of appearance, its lines were soft and unobtrusive, elegant and elegant.

Characteristic
“Communication and integration of space, visual penetration and communication” is the essence of Shanghai Automotive Museum architecture and a challenge to traditional automobile museums. The internal flow and the shared space between the top and bottom of the museum enable the maximum visual communication of the viewer space inside the museum. Terraces and roof decks at different levels allow visitors to gain access to the most natural spaces. The building’s façade uses a large area of ​​transparent glass, allowing visitors to enjoy the natural landscape of the surrounding parks to the fullest extent. At the same time, a large number of flowing curves are used in the architectural form, which symbolizes the trajectory of the car under high-speed conditions, and has a strong sense of modernity, reflecting the sports theme of the automobile museum;

Features

Education
The Shanghai Automobile Museum system has combed the development history of the world’s automobiles and established its own research institute. Its display content has formed a complete main line centered on automobile history, automobile humanities and automobile technology in the field of automobile science education. And car enthusiasts provide a great place to learn about car history, explore car technology, and interpret car humanities.

Fashion
The comprehensive brand display has made the Shanghai Automobile Museum the best platform for cultural exchanges among major automobile brands. The collection of many international and domestic automobile brands has also made the Shanghai Automobile Museum a fashion place to experience automobile culture and experience automobile art. A wider range of car enthusiasts provide a platform for communication, gatherings and entertainment.

Travel
Visitors can play in the Auto Expo Park located in the Shanghai Automobile Museum. Shanghai Auto Expo Park is a comprehensive park with the theme of car entertainment, car exhibition and car culture. The park creatively integrates the elements of the car into the landscape elements of the park, forming different thematic areas.

Facility
The Shanghai Automobile Museum has built a variety of conference facilities for large, medium and small, to meet the leisure and meeting needs of enterprises and institutions. At the same time, the car theme leisure bar in the museum, the roof garden, the car library and other areas allow visitors to enjoy the car culture while relaxing. The museum also provides visitors with car souvenirs, car models, car books, car art and so on that can meet the needs of different levels of tourists.