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