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The Shikumen Open House Museum (;
The Shikumen Open House Museum
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The Shikumen Open House Museum (; Shanghainese
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: ''Olishian-Sakumen Bovahgue'') is a museum in the Xintiandi
Xintiandi (, Shanghainese: ''Shinthidi'' lit. "New Heaven and Earth",Warr, Anne: ''Shanghai Architecture'', The Watermark Press, 2007, fig. "New World") is an affluent pedestrian zone, car-free shopping, eating and entertainment district of Sh ...
area of Shanghai
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) that presents a house in the traditional ''shikumen
Shikumen (, Shanghainese: ''zaq⁸ khu¹ men⁶,'' IPA: ᴀʔ¹¹ kʰu¹¹ mən²⁴ is a traditional Shanghainese architectural style combining Western and Chinese elements that first appeared in the 1860s. At the height of their popularity, ...
'' style.
This is a small museum on the south side of the North Block of Xintiandi on Xingye Road that presents Shanghai life as it was around the 1920s and 30s in a shikumen-style "stone-gate" house. There are about five rooms furnished with period furniture. The museum includes a ''tingzijian'', a small triangular room, sometimes rented out at a low price to impoverished writers and others.
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stations are South Huangpi Road Station
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to the north and Xintiandi
Xintiandi (, Shanghainese: ''Shinthidi'' lit. "New Heaven and Earth",Warr, Anne: ''Shanghai Architecture'', The Watermark Press, 2007, fig. "New World") is an affluent pedestrian zone, car-free shopping, eating and entertainment district of Sh ...
on Line 10 to the south.
See also
* Museum of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in the same roadReferences
External links
The Shikumen Open House Museum
Museums with year of establishment missing Houses in Shanghai Museums in Shanghai Historic house museums in China {{China-museum-stub