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Shanghai Arts and Crafts Museum
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SHANGHAI ARTS AND CRAFTS MUSEUM
Proceed south on Fenyang Road, crossing Fuxing Road, and enter the
Shanghai Arts and
9am-4.30pm; charge) on your left. Set in lush grounds, this grand whitewashed mansion, its
curved facade reminiscent of the US White House, was designed by László Hudec in 1905
for the director of the French Compagnie des Tramways. The museum's gorgeous interior
houses an eclectic collection of dying crafts including wood, ivory and jade carving, silk em-
broidery, needlepoint and dough modelling.
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