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This weekend in Shanghai Give a museum its own afternoon, then find somewhere to eat. Leave time for the walk between the two. The weekend runs from Friday evening through Sunday. Find dated events first, then places to visit, tables to book and rooms to explore after dark.
On the calendar Event Exhibitions
A last-chance autumn look at how artists picture landscapes, with works from the Centre Pompidou collection at West Bund Museum.
Sat 26 Sept CN¥100
Event Culture
Shanghai Natural History Museum extends its opening hours for selected Mid-Autumn and National Day holiday dates.
Fri 25 Sept Check price
Event Exhibitions
A West Bund exhibition follows the computer into art, design and architecture. Pair the gallery with a walk along the Huangpu.
Sat 26 Sept Check price
Event Exhibitions
Ming and Qing porcelain from the Zande Lou donation makes a focused stop inside Shanghai Museum East’s ceramics galleries.
Sat 26 Sept Check price
Event Activities
A bookable museum workshop for ages 9–18, with two Sunday sessions exploring a heroic journey through paper art.
Sun 27 Sept Check price
On the house Event Exhibitions
Painting and calligraphy from the Ching Banlee family’s Liangtuxuan collection, shown in Shanghai Museum East’s second-floor gallery.
Sat 26 Sept Free
Event Exhibitions
Skateboarding becomes a way to read cities in a photography and video exhibition at Fotografiska Shanghai.
Until 26 Oct Check price
Event Exhibitions
Discarded photographic negatives become a portrait of everyday life in Thomas Sauvin’s Beijing Silvermine project.
Until 19 Oct Check price
Event Exhibitions
Robert Zhao Renhui uses photography and moving image to look closely at human relationships with the natural world.
Until 7 Nov Check price
Event Exhibitions
Contemporary art moves through courtyards, gardens and interior spaces at Amanyangyun in Minhang.
Today · All day Check price
Event Exhibitions
Zhang Meng brings drawing, artist books, sound and textiles together in a presentation spanning ten years of work.
Until 1 Nov Check price
Event Exhibitions
Xu Lishuang turns everyday actions, industrial objects and spatial movement into an exhibition at ShanghART M50.
Until 1 Nov Check price
Event Exhibitions
Han Qian follows hidden histories through video, sound and objects at ShanghART SUHE.
Until 25 Oct Check price
Event Exhibitions
Jewellery and contemporary art meet in an exhibition about colour on the second floor of the Power Station of Art.
Until 1 Nov CN¥60
Event Exhibitions
Hu Jieming’s media-art practice becomes an exhibition of works, documents and fragments on Duolun Road.
Until 12 Oct Check price
Event Concerts
How?well, Yang Bing and Jeff Chong share an overnight house session at Heim on Changle Road.
Sat 26 Sept CN¥128
Event Concerts
Space Panda brings house and techno to Highline’s rooftop for a Mid-Autumn evening above Huaihai Road.
Fri 25 Sept From CN¥108
Event Concerts
Reactor marks its official opening with two overnight programmes across the Dome and Pocket rooms at C·PARK.
Fri 25 Sept CN¥138
Event Concerts
Rebekah leads a hard-edged electronic night at Aby’ss beneath TX Huaihai, with a full supporting bill.
Sat 26 Sept CN¥150
Event Concerts
Alex Banks and Wu Zhuoling share a live electronic programme at Future House inside Star Culture Centre.
Fri 25 Sept Check price
Beyond the calendar
A little more of the city. Places selected from our city guide, alongside the dated events above. Check opening hours and reservations before setting out.
Build your itinerary Free entry Place Activities
A riverbank walk with room for looking. Historic facades on one side, the Pudong skyline across the water.
Free entry Place Activities
Contemporary art near the Bund, with free exhibition admission. Check what is on before building a day around it.
Free entry Place Activities
A green pause near Huaihai Road. Come without a checklist and let a park bench become part of the plan.
Place Activities
Ponds, rockwork and framed views in the old city. Give the garden its own visit, separate from the shopping streets outside.
Place Activities
Get your bearings at People’s Square before walking into the city itself. Urban planning becomes a useful lens for a Shanghai afternoon.
Place Activities
A Pudong afternoon with room to read. Shanghai Library East is as much a place to slow down as a building to look at.
Restaurant Shanghainese
A soup-dumpling stop in the Yuyuan area. Choose the branch on Yuyuan Road and make the meal a plan of its own.
Shanghainese · Xiaolongbao ¥¥
Restaurant Shanghainese
A sit-down meal in the Yuyuan area, with Shanghainese cooking and pastries. Plan around the lunch and dinner services.
Shanghainese ¥¥¥
Restaurant Chinese
Make space for a full vegetarian meal on Yuyuan Road. Seasonal ingredients give this Changning dining room its reason to linger.
Chinese ¥¥¥¥
Restaurant Chinese
A small Yandang Road noodle stop with a very direct proposition: sesame sauce, a bowl of noodles and the next stretch of the city.
Chinese ¥
Place Food & drink
A reservation-only room at The Shanghai EDITION, with warm wood, punch-led cocktails and the skyline close at hand.
Place Food & drink
A long polished counter in the Waldorf Astoria’s heritage building, for an evening that begins with the architecture of the Bund.
Place Food & drink
A high terrace at Bvlgari Hotel Shanghai, with Suzhou Creek below and a wide view towards Pudong after dark.
Place Concerts
An evening of live jazz above East Nanjing Road, a natural final chapter after the Bund and Rockbund.