Shanghai Metro Museum

The Shanghai Metro Museum (Chinese: 上海地铁博物馆, Pinyin:shànghǎi dìtiě bówù guǎn) is a museum about the Shanghai Metro, located near the Ziteng Road Station of a branch of the Shanghai Metro Line 10. The museum consists of 3,000 square meters.^[1] There are simulators, dioramas, and a 5D cinema.^[2] It has been proclaimed that the second part of the museum is under construction and will include items such as the subway parking lot, and control center.^[3] It is China's only professional metro museum.^[4]

Exhibits

The major exhibits in the museum are the metro simulator,^[1] dioramas,^[1][2] the walk through a mock-up subway tunnel, and a 5D cinema. There are over sixty items in the museum. The museum is currently collecting items from the public to expand its collection.^[3][5] In this way, the museum will find a better way of introducing the Shanghai Metro.^[5] The exhibits showcase the metro's past, present, and future.

• The First Line Hall has been dedicated to the first line. There are many items, such as tickets.^[3][5]
• The diorama shows what it looks like when Line 1 passes over Line 2. Inside it, there is a model of a pair of empty shoes. They are a memorial to the metro fatalities that happened before there were platform screen doors.^[2]
• The 5D cinema shows a display of what to do when the metro train catches fire in a station.^[2] It shows an imaginary movie of starting on a metro track, a person will go through rock walls and battle dangerous animals and end up in a Shanghai sky city.^[2] The chairs will move and the viewer wears special glasses.^[4]
• The simulator is a simulator of driving the Shanghai Metro train. If a participant exceeds 80 km/h, the simulator will activate the emergency stop. If this happens, the participant will have to press a restart button to accelerate.^[2] There is a working horn.^[2]
• There is a working model of Line 4 in the museum.^[2] It is not very accurate because the train is above ground and it never passes under the Huangpu River.^[2]
• The interactive touch screen game is a game to touch all dangerous items on transportation devices. There is also one where participants find subway stations.^[2] In another one viewers create a subway car with a body, pantograph etc.^[4]
• This museum gives visitors an experience to walk through a mock-up subway tunnel. The floors are glass with mock-up rails under it. There is also a small model of a tunnel boring machine that is used to excavate metro tunnels.^[2]
• There are drawings of transport disasters in the hall of the museum.
• There are exhibits that show how the SMT Shanghai Maglev works.^[2]
• There is a sandbox that shows live train operation and signals in the museum. It is large.^[4]
• There are also five screens that let viewers see live train operation.^[4]

Gift Shop

There is a gift shop inside the museum. There are Shanghai Metro Mascot Chang Chang pillows,^[2] Shanghai Metro map umbrellas,^[2] carpets, soft toys, pencil cases, and caps.^[2]

Location

The museum is located at 1779 Wuzhong Lu, near Ziteng Lu, Changning district.^[6] The location is easily accessed by Metro Line 10 Ziteng Road station. The museum is built over China Railways tracks.

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