Openend in 2014, 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, ^[5] 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] [6]} In this way, the museum will find a better way of introducing the Shanghai Metro. ^[6] 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] [6]}
• 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.^{[ citation needed]}
• 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]

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  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.^{[ citation needed]}

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  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.^{[ citation needed]}
• There are also five screens that let viewers see live train operation.^{[ citation needed]}

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, Minhang district. ^[7] The location is easily accessed by Metro Line 10 Ziteng Road station. The museum is built over China Railways tracks.

Gallery

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  The simulator in the museum.
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  The mock-up tunnel in the museum.
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  The working model of line 4.

See also

• Shanghai Railway Museum
• Shanghai maglev museum

References