EventExhibitions
Reinventing Landscape
A last-chance autumn look at how artists picture landscapes, with works from the Centre Pompidou collection at West Bund Museum.
Shanghai / From the lanes to the river
Thursday 24 September
The local editShanghai
Slow down. See another Shanghai.
A riverside gallery. A park beneath the plane trees. Lunch in the old city. Find the Shanghai that unfolds at street level.
Less searching. More going.
Your day, your way.
Choose a mood. We’ll connect the good places.
The after-dark edit
Shanghai finds its frequency.
Upstairs on Huaihai Road or across a jazz room. Let the music decide where the evening goes next.
Explore after dark
01Shanghai / Fuxing Park & Huaihai
POTENT
Electronic music above Huaihai Middle Road, with a dance-floor programme that gives central Shanghai an after-dark pulse.
Find your nightEditorial artwork
02Shanghai
Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai
An evening of live jazz above East Nanjing Road, a natural final chapter after the Bund and Rockbund.
Find your night
03Shanghai / The Bund
Punch Room
A reservation-only room at The Shanghai EDITION, with warm wood, punch-led cocktails and the skyline close at hand.
Find your night
04Shanghai / The Bund
Long Bar
A long polished counter in the Waldorf Astoria’s heritage building, for an evening that begins with the architecture of the Bund.
Find your night
Choose a dated event on the venue’s official programme. Admission and opening times vary.
Follow your curiosity
A few ways to do Shanghai.
015 stops, at your pace
Old Shanghai to an evening of jazz
A garden, dumplings, contemporary art, the Bund and live music. A central Shanghai route that keeps changing its point of view.
Open the itinerary
024 stops, at your pace
City models, sculpture and sesame noodles
People’s Square to a small noodle shop, with sculpture and park time between the city’s larger gestures.
Open the itinerary
033 stops, at your pace
Three starting points for Shanghai art
Collections in Pudong, exhibitions on the West Bund and contemporary art near the river. Pick a venue before making a route.
Open the itineraryOn our radar
A few stops between the river and the lanes.
Yuyuan & the old city
Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant: Yuyuan
West Bund
Reinventing Landscape
Shanghai
Natural history, later into the evening
Out there, right now
Find your Shanghai moment today.
EventExhibitions
Computer Worlds
A West Bund exhibition follows the computer into art, design and architecture. Pair the gallery with a walk along the Huangpu.
EventExhibitions
Transient Possession, Lasting Delight
Ming and Qing porcelain from the Zande Lou donation makes a focused stop inside Shanghai Museum East’s ceramics galleries.
On the house
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Pearls Returned Home: Phase II
Painting and calligraphy from the Ching Banlee family’s Liangtuxuan collection, shown in Shanghai Museum East’s second-floor gallery.
Close the tabs. Open the weekend.
Follow the river. Take a side street.
Give a museum its own afternoon, then find somewhere to eat. Leave time for the walk between the two.
Make a weekend of itEventExhibitions
Reinventing Landscape
A last-chance autumn look at how artists picture landscapes, with works from the Centre Pompidou collection at West Bund Museum.
EventCulture
Natural history, later into the evening
Shanghai Natural History Museum extends its opening hours for selected Mid-Autumn and National Day holiday dates.
The food edit
A table for another taste of Shanghai.
RestaurantShanghainese
Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant: Yuyuan
A soup-dumpling stop in the Yuyuan area. Choose the branch on Yuyuan Road and make the meal a plan of its own.
RestaurantShanghainese
Lu Bo Lang
A sit-down meal in the Yuyuan area, with Shanghainese cooking and pastries. Plan around the lunch and dinner services.
RestaurantChinese
Fu He Hui
Make space for a full vegetarian meal on Yuyuan Road. Seasonal ingredients give this Changning dining room its reason to linger.
RestaurantChinese
Wei Xiang Zhai
A small Yandang Road noodle stop with a very direct proposition: sesame sauce, a bowl of noodles and the next stretch of the city.
Art & culture
New perspectives along the Huangpu.
EventExhibitions
Reinventing Landscape
A last-chance autumn look at how artists picture landscapes, with works from the Centre Pompidou collection at West Bund Museum.
On the house
EventExhibitions
Jota Mombaça: stuck in movement (in the tide)
An announced autumn exhibition at Rockbund Art Museum, opening on 31 October. A free art stop to plan around a future Bund visit.
EventExhibitions
Computer Worlds
A West Bund exhibition follows the computer into art, design and architecture. Pair the gallery with a walk along the Huangpu.
EventExhibitions
Transient Possession, Lasting Delight
Ming and Qing porcelain from the Zande Lou donation makes a focused stop inside Shanghai Museum East’s ceramics galleries.
Big on discovery. Easy on the wallet.
Shanghai, with the doors open.
River walks, park paths and open collections. Check which galleries need a separate ticket, and start with what’s free.
Discover it for yourselfA city of little worlds
The city changes from lane to lane.
Editor’s picks
A more considered Shanghai itinerary.
GuideCulture
Shanghai, with room to wander
A park, a dumpling stop and a river view. Three ways to begin a day without turning Shanghai into a checklist.
GuideCulture
Three starting points for Shanghai art
Collections in Pudong, exhibitions on the West Bund and contemporary art near the river. Pick a venue before making a route.
GuideCulture
City models, sculpture and sesame noodles
People’s Square to a small noodle shop, with sculpture and park time between the city’s larger gestures.
GuideFood & drink
From the Bund’s old rooms to the skyline
Long Bar’s historic counter, a reserved seat at Punch Room and an open-air finish above Suzhou Creek. Three ways to see a Shanghai evening.
A closer look