Opened in 2014, the Shanghai Metro Museum (Chinese: 上海地铁博物馆; 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.[1] There are simulators, dioramas, and a 5D cinema.[2] 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.[3] It is China's only professional metro museum.[4]
The major exhibits in the museum are the metro simulator,[1] dioramas,[1][2] the walk through a mock-up subway tunnel,[5] 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.[3][6] In this way, the museum will find a better way of introducing the Shanghai Metro.[6] 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.[3][6]
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.[2]
The 5D cinema shows a display of what to do when the metro train catches fire in a station.[2] 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.[2] The chairs will move and the viewer wears special glasses.[citation needed]
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.[2] There is a working horn.[2]
The working model of line 4.There is a working model of Line 4 in the museum.[2] It is not very accurate because the train is above ground and it never passes under the Huangpu River.[2]
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.[2] In another one viewers create a subway car with a body, pantograph etc.[citation needed]
The mock-up of the metro tunnel.This museum gives visitors an experience to walk through a mock-upsubway 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.[2]
There are drawings of transport disasters in the hall of the museum.
There is a gift shop inside the museum. There are Shanghai Metro Mascot Chang Chang pillows,[2] Shanghai Metro map umbrellas,[2] carpets, soft toys, pencil cases, and caps.[2]
The museum is located at 1779 Wuzhong Lu, near Ziteng Lu, Minhang district.[7] The location is easily accessed by Metro Line 10 Ziteng Road station. The museum is built over China Railways tracks.
The simulator in the museum.
The mock-up tunnel in the museum.
The working model of line 4.