Shanghai Museum of Glass Park

Shanghai Museum of Glass Park

Shanghai Museum of Glass Park
4.5
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
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Chris P
Shanghai, China4,925 contributions
Nov 2020 • Solo
The Glass Museum is far out and a bit out of the way, so it takes an effort to get there. It’s a long walk from the Nearest Metro. The displays are awesome, although I left feeling that somehow there should have been more - especially older items, seeing that it is a museum. What was on display, was excellent. It’s covers quite a large area , so you need an hour or two to see everything. Some of the descriptions on the glass panels/cases are really difficult to read, with dark backgrounds, although I was pleasantly surprised to see so much written in English.
I may need to go back on a week end, when hopefully there will be some artisans at work and workshops open. It all looks very interesting. Note that it’s half price, Tuesday to Friday.
Written November 27, 2020
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Aki
Pune, India123 contributions
Aug 2014 • Family
The main exhibition was very nice and information provided in English too. Loved the second floor especially with many stunning glass art pieces. Kids liked the museum too.

Also visited the hot glass demonstration which was not so special and also the Keep It Glassy second exhibition which had very nice glass art but was very small & hard to say was it worth the money (costs extra).

For getting to museum we used metro 3 & station Changjiang road south. From there taxi took just 5 mins & cost 15 RMB.
Written August 9, 2014
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ophiesay
San Francisco, CA131 contributions
Jun 2018 • Family
This museum is a very weird place. First of all, its location is in the middle of industrial Shanghai - near Bao Steel and nary a foreigner on the sidewalk, unlike the rest of Shanghai. It's almost at the end of subway line 1; so it's far away.

But its beautiful. Industrial grey on the outside, but inside it's a cool, modern, art/science museum - it's what would result if NYC's MoMA had a child with SF's Exploratorium and decided to move to Brooklyn. Definitely that kind of industrial, cool, maker, modern, nerdy style.

We shelled out extra for the Broken Glass exhibit - it's super edgy modern art, think Art Basel or Dia:Deacon. If you are not into that super abstract art/philosophy then you might not appreciate the very sparse exhibits. That being said, it makes for great IG pix.

There is also a crazy, dark, maze next to the Broken Glass exhibit where you are in search of 8 emboss prints. It's a little dark, and a couple of little kids ran into the mirrored wall. There is weird modern Philip Glass music playing so it's a little eerie, but fun nonetheless.

We also shelled out another 288 CNY for a glass fusing DIY - yes, it's expensive, but only in China do thy allow little kids to use blowtorches to make glass sculptures. For I think 388, you can do glass blowing (but you have to return in 24 hours to pick up your piece after it cools).

There are also other buildings that have glass blowing performances and there are a few high end restaurants that look beautiful.

I highly highly suggest this museum for a 2-3 hours trip (including DIY). Just a beautiful beautiful space and not a whole lot of people.

Warning, though, since it is so far out of the mainstream area, it's hard to catch a taxi back. We took the bus, down four stops and took Line 1 back into city central.
Written June 29, 2018
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Jo-Ann
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia15,996 contributions
Jun 2021 • Couples
Line 1 to Tonghe Xincun metro station. Walk across the road to the bus stop and take Bus 726. It takes 6 stops to reach the museum. Or, if you dont mind walking, it is easy to walk as it is just along a straight road from the metro station, about a 30 min walk.
Entrance fee is very expensive. 180 yuan for all exhibitions and an extra 60 yuan to watch the glass blowing presentation. Total is 240 yuan. Guess if you travel so far to the museum you might as well take the whole package.
Main attractions would be the exhibitions, glass chapel, maze, glass blowing presentation, diy glass projects, kids museum, souvenir and a cafe. That’s it.
Written July 17, 2021
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Owen L
Shanghai, China224 contributions
Jul 2019 • Solo
It is four bus stops or a ten-minute Mobike ride away from the nearest subway stop. However, it was worth the trek to see the temporary Broken exhibit. I paid for the three exhibit ticket (why isn’t there a two exhibit option?) and ended up at that one first. I was glad I did as it had about 20 interactive items that was linked with AR images, and pop songs via qq music. Each installation or piece had a thoughtful message tied to the analogy of glass like the chance to reshape brokenness in our lives, breaking of barriers, etc. This made it more meaningful than art pieces that look beautiful.

The glass maze was too dark and not worth the entrance fee.

The main exhibits hall is connected by a glass bridge and had the history of glass making from the Egyptians, Mesopotamian, onwards. The one piece that stood out was a bottle making machine and videos of former workers at the factory in Shanghai. Amazingly, they made 26 yuan a month in the early 1980’s. The art pieces were well laid out but there wasn’t enough description of them in writing although there is a WeChat code for audio.

There is a cafe on site packed with visitors at Starbucks prices.

I spent about 2.5 hours here and could have much longer if I heard all of the audio.

There was also a half hour live demo in the glass making studio.

I would have liked a 2 exhibit price option. All in all, a nice place for some modern art.
Written July 21, 2019
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RATUSHAR
New Delhi, India20 contributions
May 2018 • Family
Good place to go if you have time, rainy or hot day. Nice glass arts and some paid halls. DIY was bit expensive, overall good Sunday outing - if you stay in SH.
Written May 28, 2018
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Andrew_Roamer
Adelaide, Australia99 contributions
Sep 2017 • Family
We live in Shanghai and this is a wonderful attraction for a day-trip with kids. It’s well and designed, has a lot of things for adults to look at and for kids to touch and play with. It’s all sorts of glass-work of course – ranging from expensive works from Europe, to kid-friendly activities and educational exhibits (which our 3 year old loved), to live shows of glass blowing which we found very impressive.

1. Budget at least 2 hours, more if you want to do the ‘Do It Yourself’ art and crafts (which are fun).

2. We found the ticket entry prices a little confusing. If you’re bringing kids, buy the ticket ‘with everything’ which means you get the ‘Glass Maze’, the ‘Kids Museum and Activity Center’ and the ‘Adult Exhibition’. Kids under 1 metre are free. If you are all big people, you can just do the Maze and the Adult Exhibition. We saw several couples getting romantically lost in the Maze.

3. The western café and restaurant was not that great, but the Chinese restaurant was very good in both quality of food and price.

4. Fantastic toilets! Really clean and many of them are funky and fun.

5.No Wifi anywhere so bring your own data capable sim.
Written September 29, 2017
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Kikka1931
Italy290 contributions
Jun 2017 • Family
I highly recommend this trip to anyone slightly interested into glass or into spending some time into a nice and creative space.

We went there - 2 adults and two girls age 10 and 9 - after quite a drive from Hongqiao but it was worth it.

Different blocks have diverse themes and explore the versatility and history of this material. You even have a dungeon. That was such a hit that we did it twice! Another nice part is the glass making area, where you can create your own artifact. Then the area where you can check how glass can be recycled and blown into beautiful animal shapes.

If you let yourself get caught into the magic of this place, you can easily spend here 3/4 hours. They also have a nice cafe for you to chill out.

The only thing I would suggest - if possible - is to try to go not on a rainy day as the blocks are separated and you need to step out to get from one to the other (ie: no covered walkpath between them).
Written September 8, 2017
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Tamara S
Herndon, VA214 contributions
Jul 2016
I recently took my 4 1/2 year old daughter here, a big destination on my Shanghai Bucket list. We arrived at 11 am after a 45 minute taxi ride from downtown (Portman Ritz Carlton) Shanghai. I figured we would be there an hour given my daughter's age and it is a museum about glass. But we left at 3! Four hours! What a gem. Interesting displays on different facets of glass, history of glass, use of glass in movies. Even the "Broken" art work, carelessly damaged by two Chinese children while their parents/guardians looked on and took photos, is still a great display. The artwork is lovely -- it is hard to imagine the artist's painstaking work ruined so thoughtlessly, but the museum shows security video footage of the crime. A very teachable moment for my daughter. We lunched in one of the cafes. We visited the beautiful glass wedding chapel. My daughter loved the new on-site kids glass museum with fun activities to search for all the letters of the alphabet and interactive displays. We also watched a glass blowing demonstration. It is NOT a cheap outing, but worth the trek for those who are interested in excellent museums on lesser known subjects.
Written July 16, 2016
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ClaudiusSg
Singapore, Singapore282 contributions
Nov 2015
This is largely a waste of time as it is only a small gallery with glass from two blowers and in each case, the pieces displayed were quite similar. I was expecting historical information and glass pieces, for example, in some Italian museums but this was not very interesting.
Written November 23, 2015
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