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People's Square
Art centres
Yishu Guan; 231 Nanjing Road West, in People's Park;
www.mocashanghai.org
; daily
9am-6pm, subject to change - confirm hours for each exhibition on the website; charge).
The city's first independent contemporary art museum features both international and
Chinese contemporary works. Despite its relatively small size, MoCA shows some of the
more cutting-edge, thought-provoking modern art in the city. Exhibitions, which change every
two months, are on the first two floors of the three-storey glass structure, while a restaurant
with an outdoor terrace overlooking the park is on the third.
Exit the park on Nanjing Road and head west through the imposing gates of the 1933
Shanghai Race Club building. The elegant neoclassical building with its distinctive stone
clock tower once marked the racecourse's finishing straight. Look for the 'SRC' engraved
over the building's entrance and the horse heads on the ironwork banisters. This was the
former home of the Shanghai Art Museum until it moved to the larger Power Station of Art in
2013, and while much of the building presently stands empty, you can head past the surly
guards and take the lift to
Kathleen's
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, on the rooftop - a good spot for lunch or a
drink with great views over People's Square.
From here, walk south along Huangpi Road, passing the 60-storey Tomorrow Square
tower, a space-age structure that twists on its own axis two-thirds of its way up, then slims in-
