Shanghai Auto Museum

The car museum Shanghai (上海 汽车 博物馆Chinese, Pinyin Shànghǎi Qiche Bówùguǎn ) is a car museum opened in 2007 in the large village in the district of Jiading Anting Shanghai City. It is the first museum in China dedicated exclusively to the automobile.

Architecture

The building was designed by Architectural Design & Research Institute at the prestigious Tongji University in collaboration with a German design office. The client was the Shanghai International Auto City. The flowing lines of the architecture are reminiscent of a moving in faster moving vehicles. The design of the facade is reminiscent of stacked books as a sign of the opportunities offered by the museum educational and cultural opportunities. Exhibition design and scenography originate from Stuttgart atelier brückner, the lighting design was designed by the company LDE Belzner Holmes.

The interior of the museum is inspired by modern urban road courses, with indicated places, shop windows, road markings and other design elements. Is led visitors along a Corian belt to convey dynamism and movement. The museum, whose construction required investments totaling more than 400 million RMB, covers an area of ​​over 10,000 m2; total of the museum premises of 28,000 m2. It was completed in accordance with the usual in China, short construction times in just four months and presented to the public on 17 January 2007.

Museum concept

The popular science -oriented museum documents the history of the automobile - from the invention of the wheel to the future of electric mobility in China massively subsidized. In addition, it wants to show the far-reaching influence of the automobile on the coexistence of humans and to the development of society.

To this end, the visitor can follow a timeline that accompanies him through the whole exhibition. Branches on the ground floor lead on contemporary topics such as mass production (shown in an industrial hall trailing space ) or energy saving car ( spatially presented as a gas station, at the gas pumps, the visitor can learn about all types of fuels and propulsion ). Another exhibition room, furnished in the style of a tinkerer 's workshop, is devoted to the early history of the automobile. The theme rooms are picked up on the higher floors and again extended in terms of possible future development. On the third floor there is a library of multimedia information.

Rolling stock

Currently, around 80 vehicles on display, which were selected especially after the historical automotive point of view. These include, in addition to the reconstruction of a Benz motor car ( the first car with an internal combustion engine ) manufactured in China vehicles like the Hongqi and the VW Santana (first built by Shanghai Volkswagen ). Using the example of Ford T, the Austin 7 and the VW Beetle, the mass production and their consequences are discussed. Among the other exhibits of contemporary history value include vehicles like the Volkswagen Transporter and a Nash Metropolitan.

So different vehicles like the BMW Isetta and the Cadillac Eldorado document the range of simultaneously produced in the 50s automobiles, allowing on the one hand the presentation of the then prosperity gap between nations and on the other hand a social mapping of their owners. Unlike in Germany, where only small to draw conclusions about the social status of the owner can be obtained accurately from a vehicle type that are open flaunted differences in prosperity in China - also in view of the widespread corruption - a recent and much discussed, total social issue.

In addition, vehicles with little or no distinctive historical automotive value but particularities of their presents for automotive, such as a Jaguar E or a Roewe concept car.