Experts' Choice Award Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre
What the experts agree on
Hidden in a French Concession basement, this intimate museum showcases visually striking Chinese propaganda posters from the 1930s-1970s. It's equal parts art gallery and history lesson, with an excellent gift shop for authentic reproductions.
“This amazing collection spanning from the 1930s to 1970s is an art and history lesson rolled into one.”
– Travel + Leisure
Lonely Planet Top Choice
"If phalanxes of red tractors, bumper harvests, muscled peasants and lantern-jawed proletariats fire you up, this small gallery in the bowels of a residential block should intoxicate." Full review
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It’s a good idea to phone ahead (they speak some English) before heading out here to make sure it’s open.
Travel + Leisure "A visually dazzling display of authentic Maoist-era communist propaganda posters, as well as a popular gift shop that sells prints of the real thing." Full review
Atlas Obscura "An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979. " Full review
Afar Magazine "One of Shanghai's most fascinating museums is hidden in the basement of a French Concession high-rise." Full review
Frommer's "If you have just the wall space for some revolutionary art, this place has just the right "left" poster for you." Full review
Condé Nast Traveler "This small but stimulating museum hidden in the basement of a nondescript apartment block showcases a vast private collection of Mao-era Communist revolutionary propaganda artworks..." Full review
New York Times "The Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre (25 renminbi) takes some effort to find — it's in the basement of an artment building — but inside is the collector Yang Pei Ming's impressive..."
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