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Shanghai’s riverside art museums: choose your afternoon
West Bund Museum, Long Museum and the Power Station of Art offer three different encounters with art and architecture along the Huangpu. Start with one exhibition.
Good things are out there
Follow your curiosity.
A name, a neighbourhood, a mood. Start somewhere.
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Duolun Museum of Modern Art
Contemporary exhibitions add a present-day art stop to Duolun Road’s literary and cultural setting.
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Yangyun Donum Art Festival
Contemporary art moves through courtyards, gardens and interior spaces at Amanyangyun in Minhang.
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Power Station of Art
Contemporary art in a former power station on the Huangpu, with a building that changes the scale of the afternoon.
Free entry
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Rockbund Art Museum
Contemporary art near the Bund, with free exhibition admission. Check what is on before building a day around it.
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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.
EventActivities
Ai Apaec: a paper-art workshop
A bookable museum workshop for ages 9–18, with two Sunday sessions exploring a heroic journey through paper art.
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Museum of Art Pudong
Large exhibitions meet the riverside skyline at this Pudong museum opposite the Bund.
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Shanghai Oriental Art Center
A performance destination that gives a Pudong evening its focus.
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Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre
Printed images offer a specific lens on twentieth-century visual culture.
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Hamlet: Beijing People’s Art Theatre
Shakespeare’s tragedy receives a contemporary Chinese staging with Zheng Yunlong in the cast.
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Skate of the Art
Skateboarding becomes a way to read cities in a photography and video exhibition at Fotografiska Shanghai.
Free entry
EventExhibitions
Bvlgari Kaleidos: Colors, Cultures and Crafts
Jewellery and contemporary art meet in an exhibition about colour on the second floor of the Power Station of Art.
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.
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Hu Jieming: The Remnants and Echoes of Image
Hu Jieming’s media-art practice becomes an exhibition of works, documents and fragments on Duolun Road.
EventConcerts
Khatia Buniatishvili Piano Recital
Khatia Buniatishvili takes the solo stage at Shanghai Oriental Art Center.
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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.
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Yangyun at Amanyangyun
Historic courtyards and a landscaped resort setting host selected art programmes outside central Shanghai.
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Powerlong Museum
Changing art exhibitions give this Caobao Road museum a reason to anchor a visit to Minhang.
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Long Museum West Bund
Art and industrial-scale architecture shape a riverside museum visit.
EventExhibitions
ART021 Shanghai 2026
International galleries return to Shanghai Exhibition Centre for ART021’s contemporary art fair.
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ShanghART M50
Contemporary art exhibitions give Building 16 a focused stop within the larger M50 gallery district.