This is a must to see. this gives you the best overview about Shanghai. Past - Present - Future Go early this way you can enjoy it the most.

turns out, it's pretty cool. The model has ever building carefully modeled to scale. The buildings are easily recognizable...although my hotel was outside the range of the model. There is a similar model for Beijing which is bigger and grander because it's in the capital. But this museum has a few other things too. Don't miss the 360-degree video of... More

If you have some extra time this is a nice place to visit and get a coll overview of Shanghai. The maquette is huge with lots of details.

This was our second visit to Shanghai and we were looking for something different. The title of "An Urban Planning Exhibition" would surely be enough to deter many tourists, but we were blown away by the exhibition. We must have spent over 3 hours fascinated by all that was on show, and it was 40 RmB extremely well spent. It... More

This is a surprisingly informative museum, there are four floors starting from the first floor which is historic to the big scale model of the city on the 4th floor. Good to visit on a rainy day.

This place is a great place to begin your trip. It's city of Shanghai to scale. It's a great way to get oriented with city, with history and understanding architectural styles. It can help you plan where you'd like to go too. Also, interactive wrap around movie, amazing. I watched it three times!

This is the perfect way to get a city overview and how this great city transformed itself to the elitist city in the world! Great leadership and foresight Laing with strong urban planning. Absolutely a must!

So being a tourist in Shanghai, you certainly want to visit all places the city has to offer and the Urban Planning exhibition is one of them. Its the city's vision for 2020 and an entire floor of miniature modeling done for the same. It took about 30RMB and near about an hour to see the five floors of exhibition.... More

There was something for everyone (who is interested in urban planning!). Photos of the old and plans for the new, interactive things for the kids and videos to watch. Plenty to use up a good few hours!