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#chinatravel Tucked inside the historic Meiyu Building at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the Oriental Musical Instrument Museum offers a captivating 20-minute journey through China’s diverse musical heritage. Featuring rare traditional and ethnic instruments like the guqin, copper drums, and Tibetan lutes, the museum blends sound with history in a beautifully preserved 1936 building once used as a military command post. Open 10:00–16:00 by free reservation (ID required), it’s easily accessible via Changshu Rd Station. A perfect quick stop for music lovers and cultural explorers alike! #travel #trip #china #staycation #thingstodo #myitinerary

The Little Red House on the Shanghai Conservatory of Music campus is home to the Oriental Musical Instrument Museum. Reservations are required to visit and can be made through the Shanghai Conservatory of Music's official WeChat account. Currently, only the first floor of the Oriental Musical Instrument Museum is open to the public, but there are already a great many instruments on display for visitors to view, study, and appreciate. The Little Red House that houses the Oriental Musical Instrument Museum is also quite beautiful, looking especially unique in the spring sunshine.

#ShanghaiAttractions 📍Location: No. 1189, Huaihai Middle Road, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Xuhui District, Shanghai. 🎶This museum can be called a grand garden of national musical instruments. It changes its style every three months, giving you an unexpected new exhibition experience. This special exhibition "Silk Road Sounds" will definitely take you through time and space in an instant, and let you listen to the breathtaking and beautiful melodies on the Silk Road with your own ears. This exhibition is divided into three major sections: "Drum Music World", "Wind Music Gallery" and "String Music World", allowing you to fully appreciate the unique charm of various musical instruments at one time. 🌍From the passionate drum ensemble of ancient times, to the various wind instruments, to the dazzling array of string instruments, it is simply a music carnival party spanning many countries and regions along the Silk Road! 🥁In the "Drums Vibrate the Silk Road" section, you will witness one of the earliest musical instruments of mankind - the drum. Whether it is Japan in the east or Egypt in the west, drums play an important role in the exchange of music and culture along the Silk Road. When you come to the "Guantongdongxi" section, you can see all kinds of strange-shaped wind instruments. You know, the history of wind instruments can be traced back to the Stone Age! The earliest wind instruments may have originated from the flute, and then gradually evolved into various types with reeds, and finally formed the various wind instruments and horn instruments we see today. 🎻Finally, in the "String Sound Resonance" section, you will see a replica of the Shosoin four-stringed pipa. This kind of pipa needs to be held in the arms to play, and its history can even be traced back to more than two thousand years BC. In addition, the distribution map of pipa relics along the Silk Road in the Tang Dynasty is also displayed here, which clearly marks the unearthed locations of various pipa instruments on the Silk Road, making people feel as vivid as looking at a historical scroll. 🏛️The Oriental Musical Instruments Museum is not only a music palace, but also a treasure house with profound cultural heritage. There are nearly a thousand musical instruments in the collection, and only a small part of them is on display this time. Every three months, new special exhibitions will be added here to ensure that you will have new discoveries every time you come.

Shanghai Conservatory of Music's beauty is not something that can be fully appreciated in one visit. Ever since the Music Castle became an internet sensation, I've been wanting to go see it. Now that the Oriental Musical Instrument Museum of the Conservatory is open to the public, I quickly made plans to visit. Although I don't understand musical instruments, the architecture is truly beautiful. The taste of the old western-style house is just right, so beautiful and elegant!

🌟Main Collection: The Oriental Musical Instrument Museum of Shanghai Conservatory of Music has about 800 sets of musical instruments spanning over 8000 years, including ethnic musical instruments from more than 40 countries and regions in Asia, Europe, America, and Africa. It houses more than 40 ethnic musical instruments from the Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, and Yi minorities in Southwest, Northwest, and Northeast China. ❤Scientific Research Base: The Oriental Musical Instrument Museum is an important base for promoting cultural self-confidence and innovation, and an important platform for the 'teaching, creation, performance, and research' integration of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. It is committed to collecting, protecting, researching, and displaying musical instruments of various ethnic groups in the world, providing support for teaching and scientific research. The Oriental Musical Instrument Museum always attaches great importance to serving society, as a base and window for the school to carry out aesthetic education, contributing to the construction of a modern international metropolis with world influence. 👍Development History: In 1984, the 'Chinese Ethnic Musical Instrument Exhibition Room' was established. On November 27, 1987, it was officially opened to the public during the 60th anniversary of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, becoming the first musical instrument museum in our country's art colleges. In 2001, the museum was renamed the 'Oriental Musical Instrument Museum', with the museum name inscribed by Comrade He Luting. It is now a 'National Ethnic Unity and Progress Education Base', 'Shanghai Patriotic Education Base', and 'Xuhui District Science Popularization Base'. Since 2006, it has been open to the public for public welfare and has become a beautiful scenery in Shanghai's urban culture. 📍Detailed Address: 20 Fenyang Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 🕙Business Hours: Monday to 9 o'clock in the afternoon 16 o'clock 📝Tickets: Free visit by appointment

The Oriental Musical Instrument Museum is located in the Fen Yang campus of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and was founded by the former principal, He Luting. The exhibits include ancient musical instruments, ethnic minority musical instruments, modern musical instruments, and foreign ethnic musical instruments. Many of the instruments are of high quality! At the same time, you can listen to the music played by each instrument by scanning the QR code. Remember to make an appointment for your visit.

| Oriental Musical Instrument Museum.✅Exhibition Name: "Silk Road Echoes" and the Tenth Anniversary of the "Belt and Road" Initiative Instrument Culture Exhibition ✅Exhibition Period: December 28, 2023 to March 28, 2024 ✅Location: Oriental Musical Instrument Museum 🌟Highlights: The exhibition is divided into units such as Drumming the Silk Road: One Drum Establishes China, Connecting East and West: Talking about "Reed" Pipes from West to East, and Resonance of Strings: Drumming the Tambourine, showing the cultural exchanges and mutual learning among different ethnic groups in the history of the "Silk Road". 📍Detailed Address: 1209 Huaihai Middle Road 🚉Transportation Strategy: Subway Line 1/7 Changshu Road Station Exit 2 📝Note tips: Make an appointment in the WeChat Mini Program "Shangyin Performance" venue reservation

The Shanghai Oriental Musical Instrument Museum in Shanghai, China, combines the spatial structure of old buildings. The first unit of the entrance exhibition is drums. Drums are one of the oldest musical instruments in human history, widely existing in all nations of the world, from Japan to Egypt, and are important witnesses to the cultural transmission of music on the Silk Road. They not only play a role in marking beats and rhythmic structures in traditional and modern music of all nations and types, but are also important indicative instruments, and to a large extent play the role of "conductor", and are often used to bridge larger musical gaps. Various wind instruments have different shapes and are lifelike. They are made of primitive materials such as tibia and cow horns, as well as shells, metals and other horns, all of which highlight the cultural characteristics of Chinese civilization and different nations around the world, while also containing common cultural connotations.