FREE MUSEUM IN SHANGHAI

When you have a place on the 1,000 list that has free entry, you take advantage of it! There are so many museums listed on this 1,000 List to experience, it was very easy for me to compare it to other museums that I already have been to. Let's start off by saying that this Shanghai Museum is a few stories tall and fairly secluded from other attractions. If you are looking to do something cultural for free, then I would definitely recommend this. And to be honest, there really isn't THAT much to see in Shanghai so you can easily cross this off the list. My family and I spent about an hour or so in there and we thought it was plenty of time. We also ended up having lunch at the indoor restaurant here, located on the first floor across from the entrance. But if you go deeper into the restaurant, past the round tables into the backroom, there is an additional cafeteria-style restaurant available for you to dine at. This would be the much cheaper dining option, where you can pick and choose the food you want to eat. Overall, I would say it's just another same ol’ museum that doesn’t stand out as anything special. They did have some cool artifacts in some of the exhibits where you can be up close and personal with them so you are able see all the intrinsic details. However, once again, it is definitely not a museum in the same league as other museums I have been to throughout the world (ie. the Louvre or Getty).