Shanghai Metro Museum

Opened in 2014, the Shanghai Metro Museum (, Pinyin:shànghǎi dìtiě bówù guǎn) is a museum about the Shanghai Metro, located near the Ziteng Road Station of a branch of the Shanghai Metro Line 10. The museum consists of 3,000 square meters. There are simulators, dioramas, and a 5D cinema. It has been proclaimed that the second part of the museum is under construction and will include items such as the subway parking lot, and control center. It is China's only professional metro museum.

Exhibits
The major exhibits in the museum are the metro simulator, dioramas, the walk through a mock-up subway tunnel, and a 5D cinema. There are over sixty items in the museum. The museum is currently collecting items from the public to expand its collection. In this way, the museum will find a better way of introducing the Shanghai Metro. The exhibits showcase the metro's past, present, and future.


 * The First Line Hall has been dedicated to the first line. There are many items, such as tickets.
 * The diorama shows what it looks like when Line 1 passes over Line 2. Inside it, there is a model of a pair of empty shoes. They are a memorial to the metro fatalities that happened before there were platform screen doors.
 * The 5D cinema shows a display of what to do when the metro train catches fire in a station. It shows an imaginary movie of starting on a metro track, a person will go through rock walls and battle dangerous animals and end up in a Shanghai sky city. The chairs will move and the viewer wears special glasses.
 * The simulator is a simulator of driving the Shanghai Metro train. If a participant exceeds 80 km/h, the simulator will activate the emergency stop. If this happens, the participant will have to press a restart button to accelerate. There is a working horn.
 * Line4Model.jpg is a working model of Line 4 in the museum. It is not very accurate because the train is above ground and it never passes under the Huangpu River.
 * The interactive touch screen game is a game to touch all dangerous items on transportation devices. There is also one where participants find subway stations. In another one viewers create a subway car with a body, pantograph etc.
 * Mockuptunnel.jpg museum gives visitors an experience to walk through a mock-up subway tunnel. The floors are glass with mock-up rails under it. There is also a small model of a tunnel boring machine that is used to excavate metro tunnels.
 * There are drawings of transport disasters in the hall of the museum.
 * There are exhibits that show how the SMT Shanghai Maglev works.
 * There is a sandbox that shows live train operation and signals in the museum. It is large.
 * There are also five screens that let viewers see live train operation.

Gift Shop
There is a gift shop inside the museum. There are Shanghai Metro Mascot Chang Chang pillows, Shanghai Metro map umbrellas, carpets, soft toys, pencil cases, and caps.

Location
The museum is located at 1779 Wuzhong Lu, near Ziteng Lu, Minhang district. The location is easily accessed by Metro Line 10 Ziteng Road station. The museum is built over China Railways tracks.